JUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jude mean? 

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

1. (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless

2. a New Testament book attributed to Saint Jude

  Familiarity information: JUDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Judas; Jude; Saint Jude; St. Jude; Thaddaeus

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

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

Domain category:

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A New Testament book attributed to Saint Jude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Epistle of Jude; Jude

Instance hypernyms:

Epistle (a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle)

Holonyms ("Jude" 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)

 Context examples 

Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University College London, and the Royal Free Hospital have been studying the long-term effectiveness and safety of using gene therapy to treat the disease.

(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)

It was but the other day, upon the feasts of the blessed Simon and Jude, that he slew my younger brother William in Bere Forest—for which, by the black thorn of Glastonbury!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A team led by Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital studied mutant mice that develop a condition resembling chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in humans.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)