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• BEDE (noun)
The noun BEDE has 1 sense:
1. (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Familiarity information: BEDE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Baeda; Beda; Bede; Saint Baeda; Saint Beda; Saint Bede; St. Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; the Venerable Bede
Instance hypernyms:
Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
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