Definition of huguenot Huguenot

/hjuˈgʌnɑˌt/ - [hyugunat] - Hu•gue•not

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What does huguenot mean?

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Noun

huguenot - a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • huguenot (n.)
    A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • huguenot
    hū′ge-not, or -nō, n. the name formerly given in France to an adherent of the Reformation. [Prob. a dim. of the personal name Hugo, Hugon, Hugues, Hugh, name of some French Calvinist, later a general nickname. Not the Swiss eidguenot, Ger. eidgenossen, confederates.]

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  • From the 16th to the 18th century the name Huguenot was discribing a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. They are sometimes known as the French Calvinists.

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