the nazarene

Questions about the nazarene

What does the nazarene mean?

the nazarene means "a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)".

What is another word for the nazarene?

Close synonyms include Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ, Christ, Savior. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is the nazarene a common word?

the nazarene is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.