mormon

Noun · Adjective

Synonyms: Mormon Latter-Day Saint

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

the ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsSynonyms: Mormon
a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsSynonyms: Latter-Day Saint Mormon

Adjective (1)

of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Mormon Church“Mormon leaders”“the former Mormon practice of polygamy”Synonyms: Mormon

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]

1.(Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot. [1913 Webster]

Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill. [1913 Webster]

Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx. [1913 Webster]

2.(Bot.) The puffball. [1913 Webster]

3.A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640). [1913 Webster]

Mormon \Mor"mon\, n. (Eccl.) A member of a sect, called the Reorganized Church of Jesus of Latterday Saints, which has always rejected polygamy. It was organized in 1852, and is represented in about forty States and Territories of the United States. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Mormon \Mor"mon\, a. Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices. [1913 Webster]

Mormon \Mor"mon\, prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. mormw`n monster, bugbear.] (Zool.) (a) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin. (b) The mandrill. [1913 Webster]

Mormon \Mor"mon\, prop. n. (Eccl.) One of a Christian denomination (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the

Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Note: The Mormons call their religious organization The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its head claims to receive revelations of God's will, and to have certain supernatural powers. The church headquarters are in Salt Lake City, Utah. They form a substantial fraction of the population of Utah, and at the end of the 20th centrury their numbers were increasing due to active proselytization. [1913 Webster +PJC]