discipleship
discipleship noun: the condition of being a disciple.
Noun
discipleship (countable and uncountable, plural discipleships)
- The condition of being a disciple.
- Near-synonyms: followership; apprenticeship, tutelage
- The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Discipleship is a degenerating process to all parties...1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined from a Life of Love, Laugher and Work, William H. Wise and...
- Synonyms:
- followership, apprenticeship, tutelage
- The period during which a person is a disciple.
discipleship meaning in Urdu and Persian
discipleship in Urdu
- discipleship
- خدمت xidmat
discipleship in Persian
- condition of being a disciple
- ارادت erâdat
Synonyms of discipleship
Forms of discipleship
| plural | discipleships |
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Origin of discipleship
From disciple + -ship.
Questions about discipleship
- What does discipleship mean?
- Discipleship means the condition of being a disciple.
- What is discipleship in Urdu?
- Discipleship in Urdu is خدمت (xidmat). See Discipleship meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is discipleship?
- Discipleship is a noun.
- What is the plural of discipleship?
- The plural of discipleship is discipleships.
Words near discipleship in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: discipleship (page history and authors); خدمت (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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