PENTECOSTALIST

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

1. any member of a Pentecostal religious body

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

• PENTECOSTALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any member of a Pentecostal religious body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Pentecostal; Pentecostalist

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

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

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

Pentecostal religion (any fundamentalist Protestant Church that uses revivalistic methods to achieve experiences comparable to the Pentecostal experiences of the first Christian disciples)

Derivation:

pentecostalism (the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues)