Disciple

Noun

 * 1) A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
 * 2) An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.

Related terms

 * discipleship
 * discipline

Synonyms

 * student

Verb

 * 1)  To train, educate, teach.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
 * fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].

Adjectives for Disciple
ardent; doubting; youthful; ignorant; inquiring; leading; prolific; uncritical; blunt; renowned; wholehearted; faithful; fervent; humble; patient;  temporary;  tractable; immediate; civil; primitive; hopeful; trusted.

Verbs for Disciple
accept—; address—; baptize—; cast out—; choose—; command—; distinguish—; instruct—; lead—; rebuke—; teach—; win—; —advances; —apprehends; —believes; — deserts; —establishes; —expounds; —fasts; —follows; —forsakes; —ministers; —prays; —propagates; —records; —understands.

Thesaurus
Ambrose of Milan, Athanasius, Barnabas, Basil, Christian, Clement of Alexandria, Clement of Rome, Cyprian of Carthage, Cyril of Jerusalem, God-fearing man, Gregory of Nyssa, Hermas, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Jerome, John, John Chrysostom, Justin Martyr, Lactantius Firmianus, Luke, Mark, Origen, Papias, Paul, Peter, Polycarp, Tertullian, accepter, adherent, admirer, aficionado, ante-Nicene Fathers, apostle, appendage, apprentice, attendant, believer, buff, catechumen, cavaliere servente, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, cohort, communicant, convert, courtier, creature, daily communicant, dangler, dependent, devotee, devotionalist, dummy, enthusiast, evangelist, fan, fanatic, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, good Christian, goon, hanger-on, henchman, homme de cour, jackal, lackey, learner, man, minion, myrmidon, neophyte, parasite, partisan, pietist, proselyte, public, pupil, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, receiver, religionist, saint, satellite, scholar, sectary, shadow, stooge, student, successor, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, theist, thug, trainbearer, truster, votary, ward heeler, zealot

Etymology
discipul, from discipulus: < discere:; akin to docere:. Later influenced or superceded in Middle English by deciple.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: disĉiplo
 * French:


 * Indonesian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, последователь,  сторонник
 * Scottish Gaelic: deisciobal
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: последовател
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, učedník
 * French:
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish:


 * Japanese:
 * Russian: последователь, сторонник,
 * Scottish Gaelic: deisciobal

Etymology
deciple, borrowed from discipulus.

Noun

 * 1) disciple