Methodist

American  

[meth-uh-dist] / ˈmɛθ ə dɪst /

noun

1. a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.

2. (lowercase) a person who relies greatly or excessively on methods or a particular method.

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adjective

1. Also Methodistic, Methodistical. of or relating to the Methodists or Methodism.

Methodist British  

/ ˈmɛθədɪst /

noun

1. a member of any of the Nonconformist denominations that derive from the system of faith and practice initiated by John Wesley and his followers

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adjective

1. of or relating to Methodism or the Church embodying it (the Methodist Church )

Other Word Forms

• Methodistically adverb
• anti-Methodist adjective
• non-Methodist noun
• non-Methodistic adjective
• pre-Methodist adjective
• pro-Methodist adjective
• pseudo-Methodist adjective

Etymology

Origin of Methodist

First recorded in 1585–95; method + -ist

Example Sentences

The practice Saturday on the campus of Southern Methodist helped.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Martha Gulati is a preventive cardiologist and the inaugural director of the Davis Women’s Heart Center at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

"DNA repair is one of the most fundamental processes in biology," said lead investigator Muralidhar L. Hegde, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Research Institute's Center for Neuroregeneration.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

In La Verne: In a scene filmed at La Verne United Methodist Church, Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, barges into a church and interrupts a wedding, screaming, “Elaine, Elaine,” in “The Graduate.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Suddenly, though, the steeple of the Methodist Church will leap from the Bay, dragging up a cluster of white board houses.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson