puritan

See also: Puritan

English

Etymology

See Puritan.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɝɪtən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪtən/

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• Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧tan

Noun

puritan (plural puritans)

1. (usually derogatory) A puritanical person.
   • 2016 August 5, Janet Street-Porter, “Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it”, in The Independent:

     These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Translations

puritanical person

• Bulgarian: пуритан (bg) m (puritan)
• Catalan: purità m
• Czech: puritán m
• Finnish: puritaani (fi), puristi (fi)
• Hungarian: puritán (hu)
• Italian: puritano (it) m
• Macedonian: пурита́нец m (puritánec)
• Russian: пурита́нин (ru) m (puritánin)
• Spanish: puritano m
• Swedish: puritan (sv) c
• Turkish: püritan, sofu (tr), püriten (tr)

Adjective

puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)

1. (usually derogatory) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.

   Synonyms: prude, puritanical

Translations

having very strict moral standards

• Bulgarian: пуритански (bg) (puritanski)
• Catalan: purità
• Czech: puritánský
• Dutch: puriteins (nl)
• Finnish: puritaaninen (fi), puristinen
• French: puritain (fr)
• German: puritanisch (de)
• Hungarian: puritán (hu)
• Italian: puritano (it)
• Macedonian: пурита́нски (puritánski)
• Russian: пурита́нский (ru) (puritánskij)
• Spanish: puritano
• Swedish: puritansk (sv)
• Turkish: püritan, sofu (tr), püriten (tr)

Related terms

• puritanical
• Puritanism
• purity

 

Anagrams

• tanpuri, train up, uptrain

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)

1. (pre-2016) alternative form of puritanar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French puritain.

Noun

puritan m (plural puritani)

1. puritan

Declension

Declension of puritan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) puritan	puritanul	(niște) puritani	puritanii
genitive/dative	(unui) puritan	puritanului	(unor) puritani	puritanilor
vocative	puritanule		puritanilor

Swedish

Noun

puritan c

1. a Puritan
2. a puritan

Declension

Declension of puritan
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	puritan	puritanen	puritaner	puritanerna
Genitive	puritans	puritanens	puritaners	puritanernas

Related terms

• puritanism
• puritansk

References

• puritan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• puritan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• puritan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)