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herrnhuter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
her-rn-huter
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of the Moravian Church.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Herrnhuter. So called from the settlement of Herrnhut (= the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Herrnhuters (plural)

Questions

What does herrnhuter mean?
A member of the Moravian Church.
Where does herrnhuter come from?
It is traced to German.

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