puritan
See also: Puritan
English edit
Etymology edit
See Puritan.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɝɪtən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪtən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧tan
Noun edit
puritan (plural puritans)
- (often disapproving) 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 edit
puritanical person
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Adjective edit
puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)
- (often disapproving) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.
- Synonyms: prude, puritanical
Translations edit
having very strict moral standards
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Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French puritain.
Noun edit
puritan m (plural puritani)
Declension edit
Declension of puritan
singular | plural | |||
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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 edit
Noun edit
puritan c
Declension edit
Declension of puritan | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | puritan | puritanen | puritaner | puritanerna |
Genitive | puritans | puritanens | puritaners | puritanernas |