catechumen

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cat=e=chu=men

CIDE DICTIONARY

catechumen, n. [L. catechumenus, Gr. kathchoy`menos instructed, from kathchei^n. See Catechise.].

 One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catechumen, n. a Christian convert under instruction before baptism.

Etymology

ME f. OF catechumene or eccl.L catechumenus f. Gk katekheo: see CATECHIZE

THESAURUS

catechumen

Christian, God-fearing man, abecedarian, accepter, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, believer, boot, brother, church member, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, churchwoman, communicant, convert, daily communicant, deb, debutant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, entrant, fanatic, fledgling, follower, freshman, good Christian, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, laic, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, learner, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, parishioner, pietist, postulant, probationer, probationist, proselyte, raw recruit, receiver, recruit, religionist, rookie, saint, secular, sister, tenderfoot, theist, trainee, truster, tyro, votary, zealot

ROGET THESAURUS

catechumen

Laity

N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

Learner

N learner, scholar, student, pupil, apprentice, prentice, journeyman, articled clerk, beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur, abecedarian, alphabetarian, alumnus, eleve, recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer, seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner, debutant, intern, resident, schoolboy, fresh, freshman, frosh, junior soph, junior, senior soph, senior, sophister, sophomore, questionist, undergraduate, graduate student, law student, medical student, pre-med, post-doctoral student, post-doc, matriculated student, part-time student, night student, auditor, class, grade, seminar, form, remove, pupilage, disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte, fellow-student, condisciple, school, in statu pupillari, in leading strings, practise makes perfect.