BENEDICT

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

1. United States anthropologist (1887-1948)

2. Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547)

3. a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)

  Familiarity information: BENEDICT used as a noun is uncommon.

• BENEDICT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States anthropologist (1887-1948)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Benedict; Ruth Benedict; Ruth Fulton

Instance hypernyms:

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Benedict; Saint Benedict; St. Benedict

Instance hypernyms:

monastic; monk (a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work)

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

benedick; benedict

Hypernyms ("benedict" is a kind of...):

hubby; husband; married man (a married man; a woman's partner in marriage)

 Context examples 

“May the holy Benedict, patron of our house, be present this day and aid us in our findings! How many counts are there?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also called blessed thistle, cardin, spotted thistle, and St. Benedict's thistle.

(Holy thistle, NCI Dictionary)

Also called blessed thistle, holy thistle, spotted thistle, and St. Benedict's thistle.

(Cardin, NCI Dictionary)

Also called cardin, holy thistle, spotted thistle, and St. Benedict's thistle.

(Blessed thistle, NCI Dictionary)

A quarter of a mile inland we came upon the holluschickie—sleek young bulls, living out the loneliness of their bachelorhood and gathering strength against the day when they would fight their way into the ranks of the Benedicts.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That dress shall therefore be stripped from thee, and thou shalt be cast into the outer world without benefit of clerkship, and without lot or part in the graces and blessings of those who dwell under the care of the Blessed Benedict.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)