GENEVAN

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• GENEVAN (noun)
  The noun GENEVAN has 2 senses:

1. a native or resident of Geneva

2. an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin

  Familiarity information: GENEVAN used as a noun is rare.

• GENEVAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or resident of Geneva

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Genevan" is a kind of...):

Swiss; Swiss people (the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland)

Holonyms ("Genevan" is a member of...):

Geneva; Geneve; Genf (a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Calvinist; Genevan

Hypernyms ("Genevan" is a kind of...):

necessitarian (someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will)

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

Huguenot (a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries)

 Context examples 

But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)