The word " Mormons " most often refers to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of their belief in the Book of Mormon, though members often refer to themselves as Latter-day Saints or sometimes just Saints.

Both LDS Church members ( or Latter-day Saints ) and members of fundamentalist groups commonly use the word Mormon in reference to themselves.

The LDS Church, however, disagrees with this self-characterization, and encourages the use of the word Mormon only in reference to LDS Church members.

Although the Book of Mormon states explicitly that Nephi was the first king of the Nephites (), the word " Nephite " does not seem to be used in a clearly political sense until later.

Within Mormon culture, the word " testimony " has become synonymous with " belief.

While many local historians had interpreted the name as a Native American word, the origin of " Nauvoo " is Sephardic Hebrew, from the same word that Mormon leader Joseph Smith gave to the Illinois town he founded in 1839.

The original name of the Mormon settlement, Deseret, is said to be the word for " honeybee " in the Book of Mormon ; a beehive appears on the Utah state flag ; the state motto is " Industry " ( for which bees are known ); and Utah is widely known as the " Beehive State.

According to the church, “ The standard doctrine of the church is monogamy, as it always has been, as indicated in The Book of Mormon ( Jacob chapter 2 ): “ Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife ; and concubines he shall have none.

The provisional 1849 boundaries of the State of Deseret, named after the word for honeybees in the Book of Mormon.

In the terminology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (" LDS Church "; see also Mormon ) the word Gentile takes on different meanings in different contexts which may confuse some and alienate others.

For this reason, journalists and commentators often apply the word disparagingly to politicians and their positions, such as the Village Voices reference to a perceived change in Rudy Giuliani's position (" Rudy Adopts New Shtick ") or Slate. com's subtitle for a criticism of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's presentation of his Mormonism (" Mitt Romney's Clumsy Mormon Shtick ").

After the letter had been purchased for the church and become public knowledge, Apostle Dallin Oaks asserted to Mormon educators that the words " white salamander " could be reconciled with Joseph Smith's Angel Moroni because in the 1820s, the word salamander might also refer to a mythical being thought to be able to live in fire, and a " being that is able to live in fire is a good approximation of the description Joseph Smith gave of the Angel Moroni.

The Strangites " believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly ; also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God ," just as do most other Latter Day Saint denominations.

Both the Bible and Book of Mormon are considered the inspired word of God.

The name derives from the word for " honeybee " in the Book of Mormon.

Some Mormon scholars have proposed that the name Nephi is related to the Hebrew word nephesh ( נ ֶ פ ֶ ש ), which literally means the " complete life of a being " though it is usually used in the sense of " living being " ( breathing creature ).

The use of the word “ sea ” in the Book of Mormon and in the Bible does not mean Ocean in every instance.

Even though the word Mulekite or Mulekites () never occurs in the text of the Book of Mormon, the people of his nation are commonly called Mulekites by Latter Day Saints.

The only place in The Book of Mormon where the word " Liahona " is used is in the Book of Alma when Alma, speaking to his son Helaman, explains " our fathers called it Liahona, which is, being interpreted, a compass " ().

According to the Book of Mormon, the word Liahona means " a compass " ().

* Mormon ( word ), a follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.