Jehovah's Witness

English

Alternative forms

Jehovah witness, Jehovah Witness (wrong forms sometimes used by non-Witnesses and Witnesses alike)
Jehovah’s Witness
Jehovah’s witness, Jehovah's witness (former spellings, now obsolete)

Noun

Jehovah 's Witness (plural Jehovah's Witnesses)

A member of a monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.
Synonyms: JW, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, (informal) Witness, (derogatory) Jehovah, (derogatory) Jehovian, (slang, derogatory) Jehovist, Jehovie

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member of the Jehovah's Witnesses

Afrikaans: Jehova se Getuie sg
Amharic: የይሖዋ ምስክሮች pl (yäyḥowa məskəroč)
Arabic: شاهد يهوه m (šāhid yahwa)
Armenian: Եհովայի վկա (Ehovayi vka)
Catalan: testimoni de Jehovà m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 耶和華見證人／耶和华见证人 (je⁴ wo⁴ waa⁴ gin³ zing³ jan⁴)

Mandarin: 耶和華見證人／耶和华见证人 (zh) (Yēhéhuá jiànzhèngrén)
Czech: svědek Jehovův m
Danish: Jehovas vidne n
Dutch: Jehova's Getuige, Getuige (amongst themselves)
Esperanto: atestanto de Jehovo
Estonian: Jehoova tunnistaja
Finnish: Jehovan todistaja (fi)
French: témoin de Jéhovah (fr) m
German: Zeuge Jehovas m, Zeugin Jehovas f
Greek: Μάρτυρας του Ιεχωβά (el) m or f (Mártyras tou Iechová)
Icelandic: vottur Jehóva m
Indonesian: Saksi Yehuwa
Irish: Finné Iáivé m
Italian: Testimone di Geova m or f
Japanese: エホバの証人 (Ehoba no shōnin)
Kazakh: Ехоба куәгерлері (Exoba kuägerlerı)
Korean: 여호와의 증인 (Yeohowaui jeung'in)
Latin: Testis Jehovah c
Latvian: Jehovas liecinieks
Macedonian: Јеховин сведок m (Jehovin svedok)
Maltese: xhud ta’ Ġeħova m
Northern Sami: Jehova duođašteaddji, Jehova vihtan
Norwegian: Jehovas vitne n
Papiamentu: Testigu di Yehova
Polish: jehowy m (colloquial, sometimes derogatory), świadek Jehowy (pl) m
Portuguese: testemunha de Jeová (pt) f
Romanian: martor al lui Iehova
Russian: свиде́тель Иего́вы m (svidételʹ Ijegóvy), иегови́ст (ru) m (ijegovíst)
Slovene: Jehovova priča f, Jehovec m (colloquial), Jehovka f (colloquial)
Spanish: testigo de Jehová m or f
Swedish: Jehovas vittne (sv) n, Jehovas c (colloquial)
Tagalog: Saksi
Vietnamese: Nhân chứng Giê-hô-va, Nhân Chứng Giê-hô-va
Yucatec Maya: j-jaajkunaj Jéeoba

Jehovah's Witness

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