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See also: Puritan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See Puritan.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɝɪtən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊəɹɪtən/, /ˈpjɔːɹɪtən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: pu‧ri‧tan
Noun
[edit]puritan (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
[edit]puritanical person
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Adjective
[edit]puritan (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
[edit]having very strict moral standards
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French puritain.
Noun
[edit]puritan m (plural puritani)
Declension
[edit]Declension of puritan
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) puritan | puritanul | (niște) puritani | puritanii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) puritan | puritanului | (unor) puritani | puritanilor |
| vocative | puritanule | puritanilor | ||
Swedish
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Noun
[edit]puritan c
Declension
[edit]| Declension of puritan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | puritan | puritanen | puritaner | puritanerna |
| Genitive | puritans | puritanens | puritaners | puritanernas |
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