All catechumen synonyms

noun catechumen

• believer — If you are a great believer in something, you think that it is good, right, or useful.
• learner — a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.
• novice — a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner; tyro: a novice in politics.
• neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
• newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
• follower — a person or thing that follows.
• disciple — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
• devotee — Someone who is a devotee of a subject or activity is very enthusiastic about it.
• adherent — An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
• fanatic — a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
• apostle — The apostles were the followers of Jesus Christ who went from place to place telling people about him and trying to persuade them to become Christians.
• cohort — A person's cohorts are their friends, supporters, or associates.
• zealot — a person who shows zeal.
• pupil — the expanding and contracting opening in the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina.
• buff — Something that is buff is pale brown in colour.
• beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
• undergraduate — a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
• senior — older or elder (designating the older of two men bearing the same name, as a father whose son is named after him, often written as Sr. or sr. following the name): I'd like to speak with the senior Mr. Hansen, please. I'm privileged to introduce Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr. Compare junior (def 1).
• tenderfoot — a raw, inexperienced person; novice.
• fish — (loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.
• novitiate — the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
• recruit — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
• abecedarian — a person who is learning the alphabet or the rudiments of a subject
• initiate — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
• student — a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil: a student at Yale.
• trainee — a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
• amateur — An amateur is someone who does something as a hobby and not as a job.
• fledgling — a young bird just fledged.
• greenhorn — an untrained or inexperienced person.
• tyro — a beginner in learning anything; novice.
• colt — A colt is a young male horse.
• starter — a person or thing that starts.
• apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
• probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
• proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
• satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
• freak — a fleck or streak of color.
• nut — the goddess of the sky, sometimes shown as a cow bearing Ra on her back and the stars on her underside.
• partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
• convert — If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
• sectary — a member of a particular sect, especially an adherent of a religious body regarded as heretical or schismatic.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• votary — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
• junkie — a drug addict, especially one addicted to heroin.
• fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
• fiend — Satan; the devil.
• attendant — An attendant is someone whose job is to serve or help people in a place such as a petrol station, a car park, or a cloakroom.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• groupie — a young person, especially a teenage girl, who is an ardent admirer of rock musicians and may follow them on tour.
• supporter — a person or thing that supports.