EVANGEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evangel mean? 

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

1. the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVANGEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

evangel; Gospel; Gospels

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

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "evangel"):

Synoptic Gospels; Synoptics (the first three Gospels which describe events in Christ's life from a similar point of view)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evangel"):

Word of God (the message of the Gospel of Christ)

Instance hyponyms:

Gospel According to Matthew; Matthew (one of the Gospels in the New Testament; includes the Sermon on the Mount)

Gospel According to Mark; Mark (the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament)

Gospel According to Luke; Gospel of Luke; Luke (one of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains details of Jesus's birth and early life)

Gospel According to John; John (the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament)

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

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)

Derivation:

evangelical (of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament)

evangelical (relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels)