pre-Christian

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ Christian

Adjective

pre-Christian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.

   pre-Christian and pre-Abrahamic traditions

Related terms

• pre-Abrahamic

Translations

before the arrival of Christianity

• Catalan: precristià
• Danish: førkristen
• Finnish: esikristillinen
• French: préchrétien (fr)
• Galician: precristián m
• German: vorchristlich (de)
• Icelandic: forkristinn
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• Irish: réamh-Chríostaí
• Italian: precristiano
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: førkristen

  Nynorsk: førkristen

• Russian: дохристиа́нский (ru) (doxristiánskij)
• Swedish: förkristen (sv)

Noun

pre-Christian (plural pre-Christians)

1. (Christianity) A person who is not yet a Christian, regarded as a potential convert.