Baptism | Mean of baptism in English Dictionary

/ˈbæpˌtɪzəm/

• Noun
• a Christian ceremony in which a small amount of water is placed on a person's head or in which a person's body is briefly placed under water
1. There were over 100 baptisms at our church last year.
2. He received the sacrament of baptism as an infant.
3. The interview was a baptism into journalism for the young writer. [=it was the young writer's first experience as a journalist]
4. He described his troop's baptism of fire on the front lines.
5. Covering the disaster was a baptism by fire for the young reporter.