METHODISTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Methodists mean? 

• METHODISTS (noun)
  The noun METHODISTS has 1 sense:

1. a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley

  Familiarity information: METHODISTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METHODISTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Methodist Church; Methodists

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

Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)

Meronyms (parts of "Methodists"):

Methodist denomination (group of Methodist congregations)

Meronyms (members of "Methodists"):

Methodist (a follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church)

 Context examples 

It was a sort of laugh, as she answered, 'A pretty good lecture, upon my word. Was it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey; and when I hear of you next, it may be as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists, or as a missionary into foreign parts.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)