believer
Americannoun
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someone who has confidence in the truth, existence, or reliability of something.
I am a firm believer that evolution happened the way that evolutionary biologists describe.
The team’s offensive coordinator is a big believer in the run game versus the passing game.
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someone who has or professes faith in something, especially a religion.
The church has grown from a handful of believers, meeting in the pastor’s living room, to a congregation now in excess of 1,000.
Other Word Forms
- pre-believer noun
Etymology
Origin of believer
Example Sentences
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Mother Fox later insisted she was “not a believer in haunted houses or supernatural Appearances.”
From Literature
But the agency did discover that a network of UFO believers within the Defense Department had created a program that investigated accounts of interdimensional creatures and werewolves on a ranch in Utah.
That hype has now left some of its American believers feeling let down.
Mom and Dad were such believers in all those cliches.
From Literature
In real life, Duvall attended church regularly during his childhood but was reluctant to discuss his faith, merely disclosing he had "always been a believer".
From BBC
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