Christian vs Nazarene

Nazarene vs Christian

Christian and Nazarene both are nouns.

Christian and Nazarene both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Christian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Nazarene	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Nazarene is a hyponym of Christian; that is, Nazarene is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Christian:

Christian: a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
Nazarene: an early name for any Christian

Other hyponyms of Christian include Adventist, Second Adventist, gentile, gentile, goy, non-Jew, Protestant, Friend, Quaker, Catholic, Old Catholic, Copt, Apostle, Apostelic Father, Apostle, arianist, born-again Christian, communicant, Melchite, Melkite, Melchite, Melkite, Shaker, Tractarian.

Christian (noun)	Nazarene (noun)
a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination	an inhabitant of Nazareth
	an early name for any Christian
	a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome

Christian (adjective)	Nazarene (adjective)
relating to or characteristic of Christianity	of or relating to the town of Nazareth or its inhabitants
	of or relating to the Nazarenes or their religion

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