disciple

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.

   And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

2. 2
   verb

   To train, educate, teach.

   fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]

3. 3
   noun

   someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another

4. 4
   noun

   A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.

5. 5
   noun

   A wretched, miserable-looking man.

6. 6
   verb

   To convert (a person) into a disciple.

7. 7
   noun

   Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.

8. 8
   noun

   One of the twelve disciples of Jesus sent out as Apostles.

Etymology

From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.