wesleyan

1. 1.

   a follower of Wesleyanism

   BroaderMethodist

   Part ofWesleyan Methodist Church

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley

   “Methodist theology”

   SynonymsMethodist

   religion

Other forms of wesleyan

plural

wesleyans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wesleyan

What does wesleyan mean?

wesleyan means "a follower of Wesleyanism". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wesleyan?

wesleyan has 3 syllables: wes-le-yan. The stress falls on "wes". In IPA it is /ˈwɛzliən/.

What is another word for wesleyan?

Close synonyms include Methodist. 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 wesleyan a common word?

wesleyan 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.