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pre-Christian

pre-Christian adjective: pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.

Adjective

pre-Christian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.
    • pre-Christian and pre-Abrahamic traditions

Noun

pre-Christian (plural pre-Christians)

  1. A person who is not yet a Christian, regarded as a potential convert.

pre-Christian meaning in Tamil

pre-Christian in Tamil

இயேசுநாதருக்கு முற்பட்ட, கிறித்தவ சமயம் மேம்படுதற்கு முந்திய

Forms of pre-Christian

pluralpre-Christians

Origin of pre-Christian

From pre- + Christian.

Questions about pre-Christian

What does pre-Christian mean?
Pre-Christian means pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.
What is pre-Christian in Tamil?
Pre-Christian in Tamil is இயேசுநாதருக்கு முற்பட்ட, கிறித்தவ சமயம் மேம்படுதற்கு முந்திய. See Pre-Christian meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pre-Christian?
Pre-Christian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pre-Christian in the dictionary

  1. pre-charged
  2. pre-charges
  3. pre-charging
  4. pre-chorus
  5. pre-choruses
  6. pre-Christian
  7. pre-Christians
  8. pre-Code
  9. pre-Codes
  10. pre-colonial
  11. pre-Columbian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-Christian (page history and authors); pre-christian (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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