ANDREW

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• ANDREW (noun)
  The noun ANDREW has 1 sense:

1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland

  Familiarity information: ANDREW used as a noun is very rare.

• ANDREW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew; Saint Andrew; Saint Andrew the Apostle; St. Andrew

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

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)

 Context examples 

There he dwells in the Abbey of St. Andrew, where he hath kept his court these years back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrew’s, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Work by Dr Richard Randall, a co-author on the manuscript from the University of St Andrews, has shown that influenza viruses are good at hiding their RNA.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“There’s Andrew Gamble, the Irish champion,” said he.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Andrew Mente (McMaster University), first author, said that when it comes to major reductions in salt " there is little evidence in terms of improved health outcomes."

(Study Shows Average Consumption of Salt Good for Heart Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"That large impact would have blasted enough material off the surface of Mars to form a ring," said Andrew Hesselbrock, a doctoral student at Purdue who helped develop the model.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

Kim and researchers at Andrews University in Michigan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea focused their research on mode conversion, the way in which some EMIC waves form.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)

Although I left the office at half past three, and was prowling about the place of appointment within a few minutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a full quarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's, Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull the private bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr. Waterbrook's house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This Braithwaite Lowrey—I knew his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in '20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned in the Gulf of Finland in '50.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)