churchgoer

See also: church-goer

English

Etymology

church +‎ goer

Noun

churchgoer (plural churchgoers)

1. One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:

     Well, one Christmas Eve, just like to-night, she thought she would go to the morning service on the Christmas Day, for she was a great church-goer, and so she left out some coffee with the girl before she went to bed, that she might get a cup next morning she was sure a cup of warm coffee would do her a great deal of good at that early hour!

   • 1985, Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, →ISBN, page 58:

     A forced churchgoer has no religion, a terrified churchgoer has no Christianity, a bribed churchgoer has no morals.

Coordinate terms

• chapelgoer, mosque-goer, temple-goer, shrinegoer, synagogue-goer, gurdwara-goer

Translations

one who goes to church

• Danish: kirkegænger (da) c
• Dutch: kerkganger (nl) m, kerkbezoeker m
• Finnish: kirkossakävijä (fi)
• French: pratiquant (fr) m, chrétien pratiquant m, catholique pratiquant m
• German: Kirchgänger (de) m, Kirchgängerin (de) f, Kirchengänger m, Kirchengängerin f, Gottesdienstbesucher m, Gottesdienstbesucherin f, Kirchenbesucher (de) m, Kirchenbesucherin (de) f, Teilnehmer am Gottesdienst m, Teilnehmerin am Gottesdienst f
• Irish: Aifreannach m
• Italian: praticante (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kirkegjenger m

  Nynorsk: kyrkjegangar m, kyrkjegjengar m

• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see wierzący (pl)
• Portuguese: fiel (pt) m or f
• Swedish: kyrkobesökare (sv) c
• Tagalog: maninimba