believer

American  

[bih-leev-er] / bɪˈliv ər /

noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

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Other Word Forms

• pre-believer noun

Etymology

Origin of believer

believe ( def. ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Vicki Broadbent, a children's author who also blogs about parenting, is a big believer in the importance of restaurants as her family ran one when she was growing up.

From BBC

Instead he adopts St. Augustine’s anthropology and depicts the new seekers of the City of Man usurping the old believers in the City of God.

From The Wall Street Journal

Later as a young adult, Chen worked as an assistant to an award-winning Hollywood director who not only loved horses but was an avid believer of the Chinese zodiac.

From Los Angeles Times

In a 1987 Rolling Stone interview, Keaton did not present herself as a believer in heaven.

From The Wall Street Journal

For believers, Friday’s rally served as reassurance that cryptocurrencies have always bounced back, part of why they stick with these investments.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• adherent
• devotee
• disciple
• follower
• supporter
• zealot