POLYCARP

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

1. Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

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

• POLYCARP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greek bishop of Smyrna who refused to recant his Christian faith and was burned to death by pagans (circa 69-155)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Polycarp; Saint Polycarp; St. Polycarp

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

martyr (one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion)

 Context examples 

For myself, I swear by the learned Polycarp that I have most ease with Hebrew, and after that perchance with Arabian.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)