believer

Noun

Meaning

One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.

One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

worshiper worshipper convert member follower disciple adherent devotee theist supporter communicant truster true believer Jew apostle
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Antonyms

gentile carper challenger libertine infidel iconoclast
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Hypernyms

friend champion protagonist admirer supporter booster

Hyponyms

confucian apostle mystic pilgrim imperialist malthusian

Phrases with the word

firm believer believer in equality of the sexes great believer passionate believer believer's baptism new believer

Examples

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. Franz Kafka

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. Hungarian Proverb

A believer can't be spiteful. Algerian Proverb

To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

believe you me believeableness believed in believer in equality of the sexes believer in feminism believer's baptism