communicant

[kuh-myoo-ni-kuhnt]

noun

1. a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church.

2. a person who communicates.

adjective

1. communicating; imparting.

communicant

/ kəˈmjuːnɪkənt /

noun

1. Christianity a person who receives Communion

2. a person who communicates or informs

adjective

1. communicating

Other Word Forms

• postcommunicant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of communicant¹

1545–55; < Latin commūnicant- (stem of commūnicāns ), equivalent to commūnic ( āre ) to share with ( communicate ) + -ant- -ant

Example Sentences

So what did this new-old Willie Nelson sound like as he spent his birthday weekend floating on the adulation of friends, kin, communicants and apostles?

Read more on Washington Post

In a 2008 interview with C-SPAN, Ms. Pelosi described herself as a “regular communicant” and said that if she were ever denied communion, “that would be a severe blow to me.”

Read more on New York Times

Known to friends and family as Lily, she was taken to church from a young age by her father, a daily communicant.

Read more on Washington Post

He took to Corbett’s plain-spoken approach that Rogers called “bare-knuckle theology” and has been a daily communicant since.

Read more on Washington Post

Archbishop John C. Wester in Santa Fe has forbade communicants from taking the communion wafer on the tongue.

Read more on Washington Times