BAPTIST DENOMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baptist denomination mean? 

• BAPTIST DENOMINATION (noun)
  The noun BAPTIST DENOMINATION has 1 sense:

1. group of Baptist congregations

  Familiarity information: BAPTIST DENOMINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAPTIST DENOMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Group of Baptist congregations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Baptist denomination" is a kind of...):

Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Baptist denomination"):

Arminian Baptist; General Baptist (group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists))

Calvinistic Baptist; Particular Baptist (group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination)

Church of the Brethren; Dippers; Dunkers (a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion)

Holonyms ("Baptist denomination" is a part of...):

Baptist Church; Baptists (any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers)