If you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not-too-distant future he would be considered one of the top hundred movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to become a priest.
plural conformists. Learner's definition of CONFORMIST. [count] often disapproving. : a person who behaves in a way that is considered acceptable by most people and who avoids doing things that could be considered different or unusual : a person who conforms. They went from being angry punk rockers to bland conformists.
adherence noun [U]. âº the âfact of someone âbehaving âexactly âaccording to ârules, âbeliefs, etc.: He was ânoted for his âstrict adherence to the ârules. (Definition of adherence from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).ne area of particular interest to our users is that of English Language Teaching (ELT), and a number of ELT terms have recently been added to the dictionary.