puritan   (TTS Sound)

The noun puritan has 3 senses

• Puritan -- (a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship)


• puritan -- (someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures)


• prude, puritan -- (a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum)