Usually means: Initiation ritual using water, Christianity.
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  1. baptism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. baptism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. baptism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. baptism: Vocabulary.com
  5. Baptism, baptism: Wordnik
  6. baptism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. baptism: Wiktionary
  8. baptism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. baptism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. baptism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. baptism: Dictionary.com
  12. baptism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  14. Baptism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. baptism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. baptism: Rhymezone
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  18. baptism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. baptism: Free Dictionary
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  22. baptism: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. baptism: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. baptism: Legal dictionary

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  1. baptism: Encyclopedia

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  3. baptism: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Baptism: Smith's Bible Dictionary
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  1. baptism: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See baptismal as well.)

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noun:  (Christianity) A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
noun:  A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.
noun:  (rare, nonstandard) The Baptist faith; the Baptist denominations of Christianity.

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