protestants
- 1Plural of protestant.
Protestants and Catholics worshipped in separate churches throughout the region.
Protestants made up most of the town's population by the 1600s.
Note
A regular plural in which the capital letter does the real work. Capitalized, it names members of the Christian denominations that broke from the Roman Catholic Church at the Reformation. Historically it sometimes meant members of the Church of England or Ireland specifically, as against nonconformists. Lowercase, it can also mean simply people who protest. The religious sense is sometimes written lowercase too, so context decides. For demonstrators, protesters is the clearer choice.
protestants is a form of Protestant
Protestant, noun: A member of one of the Christian churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church over theological or political differences during the Reformation. Full entry
- Forms
- Protestantprotestants plural, plural
- Spelling
- Protestant → protestants: add -s
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