Definitions for Baptist

Baptist Bap·tist

Spelling: [bap-tist]
IPA: /ˈbæp tɪst/

Baptist is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in Baptist (abipstt).

Definitions for Baptist

noun

  1. a member of a Christian denomination that baptizes believers by immersion and that is usually Calvinistic in doctrine.
  2. (lowercase) a person who baptizes.
  3. the Baptist, John the Baptist.

adjective

  1. Also, Baptistic. of or relating to Baptists or their doctrines or practices.

Origin of Baptist

1150-1200; Middle English baptiste Old French Late Latin baptista Greek baptistḗs, equivalent to bapt(ízein) to baptize + -istēs -ist

Examples for Baptist

Mr Baptist was the second, and jogged close after him, looking at no other object.

Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.

He has long been a valued and honored member of the Baptist denomination.

Of course, for the Baptist Convention, this was a matter of theology, not rationality.

This was the young, telegenic, and popular Robby Gallaty of Brainerd Baptist (mega-)Church in Tennessee.

As for Deborah, there was certainly a puritanical strain in society, but she was a Baptist.

She immediately complied with Mr Baptist's request, and they all went into the cottage.

She spends a lot of time at her Baptist church—Wednesday night Bible study and Sunday services.

The Seventh Day Baptist minister went so fur as to preach at him.

The Baptist pulled off his hat, and apologized, on the ground of illness.

Word Value for Baptist
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

Similar words for Baptist
Word of the day