puritan

See also: Puritan

English

Noun

puritan (plural puritans)

1. (often disapproving) a puritanical person
   • 2016 5 August, Janet Street-Porter, "Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it", 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

• Catalan: purità m
• Czech: puritán m
• Hungarian: puritán (hu)
• Italian: puritano (it) m
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• 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. (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

having very strict moral standards

• Catalan: purità
• Czech: puritánský
• Dutch: puriteins (nl)
• Finnish: puritaani (fi), puristi (fi)
• French: puritain (fr)
• German: puritanisch (de)
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• Hungarian: puritán (hu)
• Italian: puritano (it)
• Russian: пурита́нский (ru) (puritánskij)
• Spanish: puritano
• Swedish: puritansk (sv)
• Turkish: püritan, sofu (tr), püriten (tr)

Related terms

• puritanical
• Puritanism
• purity

 

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