Seventh-Day Adventists

Cultural  

1. A denomination of Christians (see also Christian) who proclaim that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the very near future. Unlike practically all other Christians, they observe Saturday, rather than Sunday, as a Sabbath.

---

Example Sentences

There are one million members of the church in North America, according to the North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

The only inland blue zone is Loma Linda, California – one of the world's largest populations of Seventh-Day Adventists.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

The Dosses are Seventh-Day Adventists, but the film gives no sense of a religious community—or, if there is one, whether the Dosses are isolated in theirs.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2016

The Levisons explained that they were Seventh-Day Adventists and that as far as they could see, their religion was strict on the matter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite their protests, all the other churches did the same with the exception of the Roman Catholics, the Seventh-Day Adventists, and the United Jewish Reform Congregation — who soldiered on without state aid.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela