disciple
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old English discipul, from Latin discipulus (“a pupil, learner”), from discere (“to learn”); akin to docere (“to teach”). Later influenced or superceded in Middle English by Old French deciple.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
disciple (plural disciples)
- A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
- An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
- (Ireland) miserable-looking creature of a man
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Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others
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an active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy
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Verb[edit]
disciple (third-person singular simple present disciples, present participle discipling, simple past and past participle discipled)
- (obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
External links[edit]
- disciple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- disciple in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French deciple, borrowed from Latin discipulus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
disciple m (plural disciples)
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- French nouns
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