RELIGIOUS PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious person mean? 

• RELIGIOUS PERSON (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who manifests devotion to a deity

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who manifests devotion to a deity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("religious person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

tritheist (someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods)

sacrificer (a religious person who offers up a sacrifice)

Sabbatarian (one who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism))

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

religious (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

prayer; supplicant (someone who prays to God)

penitent ((Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor))

Parsee; Parsi (a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India)

pagan (a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew))

novice; novitiate (someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows)

Ebionite; Nazarene (a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome)

oblate (a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life)

Moonie (an often derogatory term for a member of the Unification Church)

missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)

Mandaean; Mandean (a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah)

coreligionist (someone having the same religion as another person)

church member; churchgoer (a religious person who goes to church regularly)

celibate (an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity)

believer; worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)

anointer (one who anoints as a religious ceremony)

agnostic (a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist))

abstainer; ascetic (someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline)

Hindoo; Hindu (a person who adheres to Hinduism)

Buddhist (one who follows the teachings of Buddha)

Moslem; Muslim (a believer in or follower of Islam)

non-Catholic (a religious person who is not a Catholic)

religionist (a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot)

Instance hyponyms:

Eddy; Mary Baker Eddy; Mary Morse Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910))

Fox; George Fox (English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691))

Antonym:

nonreligious person (a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity)