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Definition of Mennonite noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Mennonite

noun
 
/ˈmenənaɪt/
 
/ˈmenənaɪt/
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  1. a member of a Protestant religious group that lives in the US and Canada. Mennonites live a simple life and do not work as public officials or soldiers.
    CultureThe Amish and the Hutterite are Mennonites. Their rules come from the Bible, and they only baptize adults. The Mennonites came to the US from Switzerland in 1683 and settled mainly in Pennsylvania and the Midwest. They named themselves after Menno Simons, a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist leader.
    Word Originfrom the name of its founder, Menno Simons (1496–1561), + -ite.
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