A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religious denomination founded in 1830 in America.
From the Book of Mormon, a religious text that founder Joseph Smith claimed was translated from golden plates. 'Mormon' itself is said to come from combining the words 'more' and 'good' in an ancient language, according to church teachings. The term entered English in the early 1830s.
The term 'Mormon' is actually being phased out by the church itself—in 2018, church leaders asked people to call members 'Latter-day Saints' instead, wanting to emphasize Jesus rather than the founder Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon.
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