PAUL

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

1. United States feminist (1885-1977)

2. (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle

  Familiarity information: PAUL used as a noun is rare.

• PAUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States feminist (1885-1977)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alice Paul; Paul

Instance hypernyms:

feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist (a supporter of feminism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Apostle of the Gentiles; Apostle Paul; Paul; Paul the Apostle; Saint Paul; Saul; Saul of Tarsus; St. Paul

Context example:

Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity

Instance hypernyms:

Apostelic Father; Apostle (any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people)

missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)

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)

 Context examples 

Were Minstead yours, Alleyne, then, by St. Paul!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, 17 King Edward Street, near St. Paul’s.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The administration of celastrol resulted in significantly reduced food intake in the mouse model," reported Paul Pfluger, leader of the study.

(German scientists find potential treatment for obesity, Agência Brasil)

To have, as I may say, all friends round St. Paul's at once, is a treat unlooked for!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is so lonely up there with only—Oh, my God, it is Paul!’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is the first step in that direction, but much more work needs to be done, said Paul Davids, a physicist and the principal investigator for the study.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The great oven is not so wide, by ten paces, as the cupola at St. Paul’s: for I measured the latter on purpose, after my return.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Ad Hoc Working Group was headed by J. Michael Bishop and Paul Calabresi.

(Bishop-Calabresi Report, NCI Thesaurus)

Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)