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ANANIAS
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• ANANIAS (noun)
The noun ANANIAS has 1 sense:
1. a habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)
Familiarity information: ANANIAS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
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