RRa member of a religiousorganization formed in 1830 in the US, officially called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints 摩门教教徒
—Mormonadjectiveadj
—Mormonism noun [uncountableU]
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Mormon• Immigration has a lot to do with this, but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon.• Williams is working on a collaborativeanthology on the relationship between Mormons and the land.• Not only that, but at least half the land had been irrigated by Mormons.• Mind you, not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine.• The emergence of a more fully developed Asiaticsociety among the Mormons had to await their exodus to the Intermountain West.• So the Mormons suddenly had a vision-blacks could now become priests.• The Mormons soon joined in the action.• Whether his parents were Mormons or Millerites or Myrmidons, who cared?
OriginMormon
(1800-1900)Mormon supposed writer of the Book of Mormon, holy book of the Mormons