Christian Definition–adjective | 1. | of, pertaining to, or derived from Jesus Christ
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or His teachings: a Christian faith. | | 2. | of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ: Spain is a Christian country. | | 3. | of or pertaining to Christians: many Christian deaths in the Crusades. | | 4. | exhibiting a spirit proper to a follower of Jesus Christ; Christlike: She displayed true Christian charity. | | 5. | decent; respectable: They gave him a good Christian burial. | | 6. | human; not brutal; humane: Such behavior isn't Christian. | –noun | 7. | a person who believes in Jesus Christ; adherent of Christianity. | | 8. | a person who exemplifies in his or her life the teachings of Christ: He died like a true Christian. | | 9. | a member of any of certain Protestant churches, as the Disciples of Christ and the Plymouth Brethren. | | 10. | the hero of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. | |
From Dictionary Alternative Definition–noun | 1. | a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility: You have the alternative of riding or walking. | | 2. | one of the things, propositions, or courses of action that can be chosen: The alternative to riding is walking. | | 3. | a possible or remaining course or choice: There was no alternative but to walk. | –adjective | 4. | affording a choice of two or more things, propositions, or courses of action. | | 5. | (of two things, propositions, or courses) mutually exclusive so that if one is chosen the other must be rejected: The alternative possibilities are neutrality and war. | | 6. | employing or following nontraditional or unconventional ideas, methods, etc.; existing outside the establishment: an alternative newspaper; alternative lifestyles. | | 7. | Logic. (of a proposition) asserting two or more choices, at least one of which is true. | |
From Dictionary Music Definition–noun | 1. | an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. | | 2. | the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both. | | 3. | musical work or compositions for singing or playing. | | 4. | the written or printed score of a musical composition. | | 5. | such scores collectively. | | 6. | any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves. | | 7. | appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Music was in his very soul. |
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| 8. | Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds. | —Idiom | 9. | face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music. | |
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