JOSHUA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Joshua mean? 

• JOSHUA (noun)
  The noun JOSHUA has 2 senses:

1. (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho

2. a book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses

  Familiarity information: JOSHUA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOSHUA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Joshua; Joshua; Josue

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

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

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Nebiim; Prophets (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

 Context examples 

The telegram was a list of names and addresses: Lord Harringby, The Dingle; Sir George Ffolliott, Oxshott Towers; Mr. Hynes Hynes, J.P., Purdley Place; Mr. James Baker Williams, Forton Old Hall; Mr. Henderson, High Gable; Rev. Joshua Stone, Nether Walsling.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Harrisons were waving to me from the smithy, and John Cummings from the steps of the inn, and I saw Joshua Allen, my old schoolmaster, pointing me out to the people, as if he were showing what came from his teaching.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Young man, said he, I know not who you may be, and I am not much inclined to bestir myself, but if it were not that I am bent upon taking my ease, I swear, by the sword of Joshua! that I would lay my dog-whip across your shoulders for daring to fill the air with these discordant bellowings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He might say, as he did say, that a right angle was a proper sort of angle, or put Panama in Sicily, but old Joshua Allen would as soon have thought of raising his cane against him as he would of letting me off if I had said as much.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this manner my father was able to send home enough to keep the cottage and to pay for me at the day school of Mr. Joshua Allen, where for four years I learned all that he had to teach.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)