melchite   (TTS Sound)

The noun melchite has 2 senses

• Melkite, Melchite -- (an eastern Christian in Egypt or Syria who adheres to the Orthodox faith as defined by the council of Chalcedon in 451 and as accepted by the Byzantine emperor)


• Melkite, Melchite -- (an Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem)