protestant

See Protestant. The legal sense either has the same source or is simply protest +‎ -ant.

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protestant (comparative more protestant, superlative most protestant)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant.

   a protestant effort

   protestant work ethic

2. Protesting.
   • 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 274:

     He cut his Psychology once or twice, nor could he succeed, during office hours, in keeping his mind on office-routine. His superiors became impatient and then protestant.

   • 1932, Graham Greene, Stamboul Train‎^[1], Penguin, published 1963, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 191:

     Her sense of desolation, the knowledge that for some reason, God alone knew why, she loved him, made her for a moment protestant. Why not ? Why shouldn’t I write to him?

protestant (plural protestants)

1. (chiefly law) One who protests; a protester.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     These are too mean parts of the pageant: and you don't hear widows' cries or mothers' sobs in the midst of the shouts and jubilation in the great Chorus of Victory. And yet when was the time that such have not cried out: heart-broken, humble protestants, unheard in the uproar of the triumph!

   • 1915 November 3, decision in the case of the State of New Mexico v. Garrett, published in 1916 among the Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Cases Relating to Public Lands, volume 44 (edited by George J Hesselman), page 490: In the case of Hyacinthe Villeneuve a homestead entry had been allowed upon a tract of land that had been patented to the Santa Fe Railroad Company, whose grantees had expressed a willingness to reconvey in order that effect might be given to the equities of the homesteader, whereas in the present case the State stands in the position of a protestant.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Protestant.

protestant m or f (masculine and feminine plural protestants)

1. Protestant

protestant m or f by sense (plural protestants)

1. Protestant

• protestantisme

protestant

1. gerund of protestar

• “protestant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “protestant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “protestant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “protestant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprotɛstant]

protestant m anim

1. Protestant (person)

• “protestant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “protestant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

protest +‎ -ant. From German Protestant, from French protestant, from Latin protestans.

protestant c (singular definite protestanten, plural indefinite protestanter)

1. a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

• “protestant” in Den Danske Ordbog

From French protestant, from Latin prōtestārī 'to testify'.

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• Hyphenation: pro‧tes‧tant

protestant m (plural protestanten, diminutive protestantje n)

1. Protestant (a modern Christian denomination not belonging to the Catholic or Orthodox traditions)

• → Papiamentu: protestant

From protester +‎ -ant. Influenced by German Protestant.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.tɛs.tɑ̃/

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protestant (feminine protestante, masculine plural protestants, feminine plural protestantes)

1. Protestant

   Hyponym: calviniste

• protestantisme

protestant

1. present participle of protester

protestant m (plural protestants, feminine protestante)

1. Protestant (person)

   Synonym: parpaillot

   Hyponym: calviniste

• → Persian: پروتستان (porotestân)

• “protestant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestanter, definite plural protestantene)

1. a Protestant (follower of Protestantism; member of a Protestant church)

• protestantisk

protestant m (definite singular protestanten, indefinite plural protestantar, definite plural protestantane)

1. a Protestant (as above)

• protestantisk

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈtɛs.tant/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstant
• Syllabification: pro‧tes‧tant

protestant m pers (female equivalent protestantka)

1. Protestant
2. (archaic) protest participant

• protestant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• protestant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French protestant.

protestant m (plural protestanți)

1. Protestant

• IPA^(key): /protěstant/
• Hyphenation: pro‧te‧stant

protèstant m anim (Cyrillic spelling протѐстант)

1. (Christianity) Protestant

protest +‎ -ant

protestant c

1. a Protestant; one who follows the practice of the Christian form of Protestantism

• protestantism
• protestantisk

• protestant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• protestant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• protestant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)