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Quaker

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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Quak·er /ˈkweɪkə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  RRCa member of the Society of Friends, a Christian religious group that meets without any formal ceremony or priests and that is opposed to violence 〔基督教〕贵格会教徒,公谊会教徒,教友会教徒Quaker adjective
Examples from the Corpus
QuakerSo, Woolman was a Quaker.Arrested for attending Quaker and Seeker meetings, he was excused by a judge who noted his fine dress.Andy Payton, later to move to Middlesbrough, destroyed Quakers by setting up three goals and scoring another.Eventually, Quaker Oats relented, agreeing to keep parallel distribution systems for Snapple and Gatorade.Around the turn of the century, the Crown gave up on the Quaker colony but then later restored it to Penn.This time the Quakers were not going to wear it.Last term, he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship.Since then, Quaker has continued to support university-based research into the substance.
Quak·er nounChineseSyllable
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Quaker
Quaker /ˈkweɪkə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
a member of the Society of Friends, a Christian religious group that meets without any formal ceremony or priests and that is opposed to violence
—Quaker adjective


QuakerBrE /ˈkweɪkə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkweɪkər/ 🔊 nouna member of the Society of Friends, a Christian religious group that meets without any formal ceremony and is strongly opposed to violence and war 贵格会教徒,公谊会教徒(属于基督教派,废除礼仪,反对暴力和战争) Quaker adjectivea Quaker school贵格会学校