Meaning

4 senses
  1. A person who has converted to a religion.

    They were all converts to Islam.

    Konvertit

    новообращённыйnovoobraščónnyj, новообращённаяnovoobraščónnaja, неофи́тneofít

    a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

  2. A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.

    I never really liked broccoli before, but now that I've tasted it the way you cook it, I'm a convert!

  3. Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.

  4. (Canadian)The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

Examples

643 sentences
  1. The body converts extra calories into fat.

    Тіло переробляє зайві калорії у жир. — shanghainese

    ruТело превращает лишние калории в жир. — sharptoothed

  2. I converted my yen into dollars.

    ruЯ поменял свои иены на доллары. — marafon

    deIch habe meine Yen in Dollar umgewechselt. — Dani6187

  3. The land was converted into a park.

    deDas Landstück wurde zu einem Park umgewandelt. — Tamy

  4. Tom converted his bedroom into an office.

    deTom hat sein Schlafzimmer zu einem Büro umfunktioniert. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. You must convert dollars into the local currency.

    deSie müssen Dollar in Landeswährung tauschen. — samueldora

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person who has converted to a religion:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who has converted to a religion:

Origin

From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn aroun

From Middle English converten, from Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

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Forms

plural: converts
Singularconvert
Pluralconverts

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedreconvert

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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