Paulist
noun
Paulist is a noun meaning “A member of various religious orders associated with either of the saints Paul of Thebes and Paul of Tarsus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-U-L-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Paulist is Paulists.
What does Paulist mean?
noun
- 1
A member of various religious orders associated with either of the saints Paul of Thebes and Paul of Tarsus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Paulist
- Paulists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Paulist?
Paulist appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Paulist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a member of the religious order associated with Paul of Thebes, the First Hermit:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Pauliner, Paulinerin |
| Spanish | paulino |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Paulist come from?
From Paul + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).