BARUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baruch mean? 

• BARUCH (noun)
  The noun BARUCH has 3 senses:

1. economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)

2. a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah

3. an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch

  Familiarity information: BARUCH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARUCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Baruch; Bernard Baruch; Bernard Mannes Baruch

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

adherent; disciple (someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Baruch; Book of Baruch

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Baruch" is a part of...):

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)