"communicant" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-communicant.wav [US]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} communicant (not comparable)
  1. Communicating. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-communicant-en-adj-LBj~6fFc

Noun

IPA: /kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-communicant.wav [US] Forms: communicants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} communicant (plural communicants)
  1. (Christianity) A person who receives (or is allowed to receive) the elements (i.e., bread and wine) of the sacrament of Holy Communion. (Compare also these terms: communion, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mass, Eucharist, Divine Liturgy.) Categories (topical): Christianity, People Translations (person who receives Communion): komuniiĝanto (Esperanto), komuniiĝantino [feminine] (Esperanto), communiant [masculine] (French), communiante [feminine] (French), Kommunikant [masculine] (German), Kommunikantin [feminine] (German), Abendmahlsgast [masculine] (German), Abendmahlsgästin [feminine] (German), Abendmahlsgänger [masculine] (German), Abendmahlsgängerin [feminine] (German), Abendmahlsbesucher [masculine] (German), Abendmahlsbesucherin [feminine] (German), Abendmahlsteilnehmer [masculine] (German), Abendmahlsteilnehmerin [feminine] (German), Teilnehmer am heiligen Abendmahl [masculine] (German), Teilnehmerin am heiligen Abendmahl [feminine] (German), komunikan (Indonesian), komunikant [masculine] (Polish), comulgante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), komuinan (Volapük), hikomuinan [masculine] (Volapük), jikomuinan [feminine] (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-communicant-en-noun-LB9xr9Ss Disambiguation of People: 0 75 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 73 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 73 21 Topics: Christianity Disambiguation of 'person who receives Communion': 86 14
  2. One who communicates. Translations (one who communicates): komunikan (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-communicant-en-noun-IXPdUcWc Disambiguation of 'one who communicates': 17 83

Inflected forms

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Field on the Church",
          "text": "The co-eternal Son of the living God, incarnate, tempted, crucified, resurgent, communicant of his spirit, ascendant, and obtaining for his church the descent of the Holy Ghost.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Communicating."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/02/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-communicant.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-communicant.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "communicant"
}

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