baptist
/ˈbæptɪst/noun
1
Baptist
a member of a Protestant Christian denomination advocating baptism only of adult believers by total immersion. Baptists form one of the largest Protestant bodies and are found throughout the world and especially in the US.浸礼会教友（提倡只让成年信徒接受浸没洗礼的一新教教会成员, 浸礼会是最大的新教团体之一, 遍布全世界, 在美国盛行）。
2
- a person who baptizes someone施洗者。
词源
Middle English (in sense 2)： from Old French baptiste, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek baptistēs, from baptizein 'immerse， baptize'.