Colossian
Americannoun
-
a native or inhabitant of Colossae.
-
one of the Christians of Colossae, to whom Paul addressed one of his Epistles.
adjective
noun
-
a native or inhabitant of Colossae
-
New Testament any of the Christians of Colossae to whom St Paul's Epistle was addressed
Etymology
Origin of Colossian
< Latin Coloss ( ae ) (< Greek Kolossaî ) + -ian
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He belonged to a Christian named Philemon, a member of the Colossian Church.
From Project Gutenberg
The Colossian passage warns against the chafing effect of parental exactions and fretfulness, that tend to break the child’s spirit and spoil its temper.
From Project Gutenberg
What a strange new dialect it must have sounded to the slave-owners in the Colossian Church!
From Project Gutenberg
Recent expositors have sufficiently proved that there was a Judaic element in the Colossian heresy.
From Project Gutenberg
In the letter to the Colossian Church, he mentions a letter to the church at Laodicea, a city near to Colosse.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
