SAVIOUR

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

1. a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

2. a person who rescues you from harm or danger

  Familiarity information: SAVIOUR used as a noun is rare.

• SAVIOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Christ; Deliverer; Good Shepherd; Jesus; Jesus Christ; Jesus of Nazareth; Redeemer; Savior; Saviour; the Nazarene

Instance hypernyms:

Logos; Son; Word (the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus))

Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Instance hyponyms:

El Nino (the Christ child)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who rescues you from harm or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

deliverer; rescuer; savior; saviour

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

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

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

christ; messiah (any expected deliverer)

 Context examples 

It was to be at St. Saviour’s, near King’s Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. Pancras Hotel.

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

I turned my prayer to thanksgiving: the Source of Life was also the Saviour of spirits.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Not only a fellow-countryman, my good sir," said Challenger, "but also, if I may be allowed to enlarge your simile, an ally of the first value. This beech tree will be our saviour."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They would set me down at their cottage doors, and give me what-not fur to eat and drink, and show me where to sleep; and many a woman, Mas'r Davy, as has had a daughter of about Em'ly's age, I've found a-waiting fur me, at Our Saviour's Cross outside the village, fur to do me sim'lar kindnesses.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I clambered out upon the sill, but I hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me.

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

You may believe me, when I heerd her voice, as I had heerd at home so playful—and see her humbled, as it might be in the dust our Saviour wrote in with his blessed hand—I felt a wownd go to my 'art, in the midst of all its thankfulness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)