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puritans

puritans is the plural of puritan.

Meaning of puritan

Noun

puritan (plural puritans)

  1. (derogatory, usually) A puritanical person.
    • 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.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

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Noun capitalized: Puritans

Puritans

  1. (plural) plural of Puritan

Questions about puritans

What is puritans the plural of?
Puritans is the plural of puritan.
What part of speech is puritans?
Puritans is a noun.

Words near puritans in the dictionary

  1. puritanizing
  2. puritanlike
  3. puritanly
  4. Puritano
  5. Puritanos
  6. puritans
  7. puriteen
  8. puriteens
  9. purities
  10. puritogen
  11. Puriton

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