- Christian
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ believing, committed, devout, faithful, good, practising/practicing, professing (AmE)▪
Boyle was a devout Christian and an enthusiastic student of the Bible.
▪ born-again, evangelical, fundamentalist▪He became a born-again Christian at 40 and turned his back on his misspent youth.
▪ Orthodox, Protestant, etc.▪ conservative, liberal, right-wingVERB + CHRISTIAN▪ be brought up (as), be raised (as)CHRISTIAN + VERB▪ believe▪ pray, worship{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}adj.Christian is used with these nouns: ↑background, ↑belief, ↑believer, ↑burial, ↑calendar, ↑charity, ↑church, ↑civilization, ↑college, ↑community, ↑conception, ↑congregation, ↑conservative, ↑context, ↑conversion, ↑conviction, ↑doctrine, ↑dogma, ↑duty, ↑education, ↑era, ↑ethics, ↑extremist, ↑festival, ↑god, ↑gospel, ↑holiday, ↑leader, ↑leadership, ↑love, ↑marriage, ↑martyr, ↑meditation, ↑message, ↑minister, ↑ministry, ↑minority, ↑mission, ↑monk, ↑moral, ↑morality, ↑myth, ↑name, ↑nation, ↑orthodoxy, ↑philosopher, ↑philosophy, ↑prayer, ↑preacher, ↑principle, ↑right, ↑saint, ↑school, ↑scripture, ↑sect, ↑symbol, ↑symbolism, ↑teaching, ↑theology, ↑thinker, ↑thought, ↑tradition, ↑unity, ↑value, ↑view, ↑virtue, ↑vocation, ↑worship, ↑writer
Collocations dictionary. 2013.