puritan
See also: Puritan
English
editEtymology
editSee Puritan.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɝɪtən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪtən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧tan
Noun
editpuritan (plural puritans)
- (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
editpuritanical person
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Adjective
editpuritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)
- (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
edithaving very strict moral standards
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editNorwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editpuritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French puritain.
Noun
editpuritan m (plural puritani)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | puritan | puritanul | puritani | puritanii | |
genitive-dative | puritan | puritanului | puritani | puritanilor | |
vocative | puritanule | puritanilor |
Swedish
editNoun
editpuritan c
Declension
editDeclension of puritan
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