Definitions for Mennonite

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Mennonite Men·non·ite

Spelling: [men-uh-nahyt]

IPA: /ˈmɛn əˌnaɪt/

Mennonite is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in Mennonite (eeimnnnot).

Definitions for Mennonite

noun

1. a member of an evangelical Protestant sect, originating in Europe in the 16th century, that opposes infant baptism, practices baptism of believers only, restricts marriage to members of the denomination, opposes war and bearing arms, and is noted for simplicity of living and plain dress.

Origin of Mennonite

1555-65; German Mennonit; named after Menno Simons (1492-1559), Frisian religious leader; see -ite¹

Examples for Mennonite

My other companion is a boy of nineteen from a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania.

Then she took off the handsome shawl she wore and threw it about the shoulders of the Mennonite woman.

We have rabbit for supper at the sacrifice of considerable Mennonite calm.

I pitched up bundles from below, to an old man of sixty, who wore a fringe of grey beard, like a Mennonite.

The little “Mennonite Maid” who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction.

This Galenus Abrahams was a Mennonite and a man of considerable note.

Self-sufficiency, reflecting contexts of existence of limited scale, marks the Amish and Mennonite families.

Went out to the Mennonite conference in the Hawpatch, about nine miles from here.

The little "Mennonite Maid" who wanders through these pages is something quite new in fiction.

My red wire-grass had been clipped to the skin and a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat of a Quaker or Mennonite planted there.