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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
believer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great believer in
▪ Len was a great believer in the power of positive thinking.
fervent admirer/believer etc
▪ a fervent supporter of human rights
firm believer
▪ Corey was always a firm believer in prayer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
firm
▪ He was a firm believer in the power of prayer.
▪ Bill Tobin is a firm believer that the scouting department should have more influence than assistant coaches in running the draft.
▪ Despite the obstacles they encountered in their research and their own experience, the three young interviewers remain firm believers in inclusion.
▪ Daley was a firm believer in the bootstrap theory.
▪ A firm believer in mysticism and fate, he felt he had ignored the course his intuition was guiding him to follow.
great
▪ Lampard was a great believer in eating whenever you could.
▪ History had made the Saigormais great believers in luck.
▪ Birch was also a great believer in the corrosion-resistant qualities of cast-iron columns, and this confidence was fully vindicated by time.
religious
▪ This is a great temptation facing the religious believer.
true
▪ And nobody is going to more than three Warriors games without being a true believer.
▪ In short, the Middle East sets true believer against true believer with survival as the issue.
▪ But the true believers are an irrepressible group.
▪ Each is a true believer from a distinct wing of the conservative movement.
▪ What causes seem most likely to mobilize true believers to take extraordinary political actions?
▪ Not like back in the old days when just a few eccentrics and a handful of true believers would come out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Conley is a devout believer in specialty niches.
▪ Efficient-market believers could strike it rich if they could persuade people to give up.
▪ Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded.
▪ She was a strong believer in women's participation in public affairs.
▪ The men behind the plan, he said, were respected Agency veterans, deep believers in a free Havana.
▪ The movie is less than a miracle, but it made a believer out of me.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Believer

Believer \Be*liev"er\, n.

  1. One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

  2. (Theol.) One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.

    Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers.
    --Book of Com. Prayer.

  3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
believer

"one who has faith in religion," 1540s, agent noun from believe.

Wiktionary
believer

n. A person who believes; especially regarding religion.

WordNet
believer
  1. n. a supporter who accepts something as true [syn: truster]

  2. a person who has religious faith [syn: worshiper, worshipper]

Wikipedia
Believer (band)

Believer is an American technical thrash metal band from the late 1980s and early 1990s, that plays a hybrid of thrash and progressive metal. Believer is known for its innovative use of symphonic elements in thrash metal, featuring some of the earliest examples of symphonic metal. Their lyrics deal with topics of philosophy, theology and social issues.

The two primary members of the band are vocalist/guitarist Kurt Bachman and drummer Joey Daub, who were joined by several others after their 1989 debut album, Extraction from Mortality. The band was jointly signed to Roadrunner Records, and the Christian label R.E.X. Music. According to Allmusic, several mainstream magazines praised the second album Sanity Obscure. They toured US and Europe with Bolt Thrower the following year. Believer disbanded in 1994; however, in March 2005, Daub announced that he and Bachman reformed the band.

On November 18, 2008, Blabbermouth.net announced Believer's signing with Metal Blade Records. The fourth album titled Gabriel was released on March 17, 2009. An unmastered version of the song "Medwton" premiered on Bam Margera's Radio Bam show on November 17, with the singles "Focused Lethality" and "Stoned" released later. The album features musicians Rocky Gray of Living Sacrifice and Deron Miller of CKY performing guest guitar solos and Howard Jones ( Killswitch Engage) contributing guest vocals.

Believer

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Believer (Goldfrapp song)

"Believer" is a synthpop song by English duo Goldfrapp from their fifth studio album, Head First. Written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, with additional production by Pascal Gabriel, the song was released as the album's third and final single on 6 September 2010.

Believer (American Authors song)

"Believer" is the debut single by American indie rock band American Authors. The song was written by band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James Adam Shelley, along with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. "Believer" first appeared on their 2013 American Authors EP and was released as the band's debut single on March 19, 2013; it was later included on their debut studio album, Oh, What a Life (2014).

Believer (Chic album)

Believer is the seventh studio album by American band Chic, their last for the Atlantic Records label, and the last featuring the classic line-up of Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Alfa Anderson, Luci Martin, and Tony Thompson. The album includes the singles "Give Me The Lovin'" (#57 US R&B), "You Are Beautiful" (issued only in France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia), and "Party Everybody" (issued only in Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands). The album failed to make much of an impact and shortly after its release the group disbanded. 1983 had seen Nile Rodgers releasing his first solo album, Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove - also largely overlooked, at least on a strictly commercial level. The following production assignment for David Bowie's Let's Dance album was to change the future for both Rodgers and his colleague Bernard Edwards completely.

Believer was transferred to compact disc and re-released by Atlantic Records/ Warner Music in 1991. The album was digitally remastered and re-issued by Wounded Bird Records in 2006.

Believer (Laura Dawn album)

Believer is a 2001 album by Laura Dawn. It was released by the now-defunct Extasy International Records, an offshoot of the Extasy Records label created by X Japan drummer Yoshiki, and distributed by Warner Bros. It features a hidden track, "Jump Into the Fire", originally by Harry Nilsson.

Dawn described the album as the soundtrack to her rollercoaster life of the preceding few years. She toured the US in support of the album.

The album was produced by Ted Nicely (Fugazi), and the session musicians included Tommy Stinson of The Replacements on bass, drummers Josh Freese from A Perfect Circle and Kevin March of Shudder to Think, and guitarist Richard Fortus of the Psychedelic Furs.

"I Would", taken from the album, reached number 37 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart.

Believer (Kutless album)

Believer is the seventh full-length studio album by the Christian rock band Kutless. It was released on February 28, 2012. The first single, "Carry Me to the Cross" has seen success on the Billboard Christian Songs chart with a peak at No. 15. The album debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Christian Albums chart and No. 42 on the Billboard 200. The album later peak at No. 1 on Hot Christian Albums and No. 36 on the 200 chart, becoming Kutless' highest position in the 200 so far.

This is the last album to feature long-time bassist Dave Luetkenhoelter and drummer Jeff Gilbert, who left the band in 2013 and 2012, respectively.

Believer (DJ Fresh and Adam F song)

"Believer" is a single by English drum and bass producer DJ Fresh and English record producer and DJ Adam F. The song was released as a digital download on 7 June 2015 through Ministry of Sound as the sixth single from Fresh's forthcoming fourth studio album. The song peaked to number 58 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Adam Fenton, Dan Stein and Ray Keith.

Usage examples of "believer".

Barry and I occasionally joked about the faith thing, about his being a True Believer and me the quintessential agnostic, a secular humanist.

From religious contrasts arise the thought-categories of believer and non-believer, from economics those of co-worker and competitor, from ideological those of agreer and disagreer.

This anointing is not proper to kings, but common to believers: few kings are so anointed.

Triple bounty vouchsafed community Most Great Name scattered face planet calls for tremendous immediate concerted exertion assembled believers adequately discharge triple responsibility.

As Holy Year expires overjoyed announce assembled believers no less thirteen additions roll honour since transmission last message conference week ago.

I feel, however, that in view of the expansion and the growing importance of the administrative sphere of the Cause, the general sentiments and tendencies prevailing among the friends, and the signs of increasing interdependence among the National Spiritual Assemblies throughout the world, the assembled accredited representatives of the American believers should exercise not only the vital and responsible right of electing the National Assembly, but should also fulfill the functions of an enlightened, consultative and cooperative body that will enrich the experience, enhance the prestige, support the authority, and assist the deliberations of the National Spiritual Assembly.

Convention, to take an active part in all its proceedings, and to acquaint his fellow-workers on his return with the accomplishments, the decisions and the aspirations of the assembled representatives of the American believers.

Dominion of Canada, to whose significance and future the Author of the Tablets of the Divine Plan has repeatedly referred, and in all the nine provinces of which, as a direct result of the operation of the first Seven Year Plan, the Faith has established its spiritual assemblies, the Canadian believers, as a token of their recognition of the significance of the forthcoming formation of their first National Spiritual Assembly, must arise and carry out befittingly the task allotted to them in their homeland.

I saw with pleasure that I had to deal with a man of sense and education, but Valenglard, who was a believer in astrology, began an argument with him on the subject.

Now it devolves upon every well-assured and devoted friend, every firm and enkindled believer enraptured by His love, to drink this healing remedy at one draught, so that the agony of bereavement may be somewhat alleviated and the bitter anguish of separation dissipated.

Guardian has notified the friends in other countries that, in view of the fact that this is the hundredth year of the Faith and we are going to celebrate our Centenary next May, Spiritual Assemblies may be constituted or elected anytime before next April, wherever there are 9 or more believers.

Deeply appreciate heartily reciprocate Centenary greetings beloved valiant victorious community Indian believers.

I shall ever help men to christening, I cannot believe, for I am now, and always shall be, a faithful worshipper of the gods of Asgard and an enemy to all believers in Christ.

Free Grace Believers were expelled from the Massachusetts Colony, and, after sundry peregrinations, settled at last in the Providence Plantations, upon Pick-a-Neck-a-Sock Point, coadjacent to the town of New Hope.

Now, noble Hassan, if a promise to a Jew be not binding on a true believer, and you will see me straight with the five thousand dirhems, I will betray everything at once.