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disciple¹

  • /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/

Rhymes with -aɪpəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.

noun disciples

  1. A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
  2. An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc. And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
  3. Ireland A wretched, miserable-looking man.

Similar: student

verb disciples · discipling · discipled

  1. transitive To convert (a person) into a disciple.
  2. transitive To train, educate, teach. fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]
  3. transitive To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple. Most recently, messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting passed the resolution On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Design for Gender, Marriage, and the Family, which resolves among many beliefs that “we encourage churches to disciple their members in a biblical view of marriage, sexuality, pare

Disciple²

Where it comes from

A proprialization of disciple.

noun Disciples

  1. Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.
  2. One of the twelve disciples of Jesus sent out as Apostles.
  3. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Disciple of Christ (“member of a particular religious group”).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: adherent, apostle, ist, pupil, student, trainee, servant, apprentice, follower, girl, acolyte, learner, believer, convert, admirer, partisan

noun

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noun person who learns from another

Españoldiscípulo
한국어제자 jeja, 문도 mundo
日本語弟子 deshi, 門徒 monto
中文弟子 dìzǐ, 門徒 /门徒 méntú
हिन्दीविद्यार्थी vidyārthī, विद्यार्थिनी vidyārthinī, छात्र chātra, छात्रा chātrā, शिष्य śiṣya, शिष्या śiṣyā
Portuguêsdiscípulo
Françaisdisciple
DeutschJünger, Jüngerin
Русскийучени́к učeník, после́дователь poslédovatelʹ, сторо́нник storónnik

noun active follower or adherent

Españoldiscípulo
한국어문도 mundo
日本語門徒 monto, 信奉者 shinpōsha
中文門徒 /门徒 méntú, 追隨者 /追随者 zhuīsuízhě
हिन्दीअनुयायी anuyāyī
Kiswahilimwanafunzi
Portuguêsdiscípulo
Françaisdisciple
DeutschJünger, Jüngerin
Русскийпосле́дователь poslédovatelʹ, сторо́нник storónnik, апо́стол apóstol

noun one of the twelve disciples of Jesus

日本語弟子 deshi
العربيةحَوَارِيّ ḥawāriyy, تِلْمِيذ tilmīḏ

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@misc{disciple_2026,
  title = {disciple},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disciple},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}