Noun melkite has 2 senses
  1. 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
    --1 is a kind of Christian
  2. Melkite, Melchite - an Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriachate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem
    --2 is a kind of Christian
,
TOP