SOLOMON

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

1. (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)

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

• SOLOMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

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)

Derivation:

Solomonic (exhibiting or requiring the wisdom of Solomon in making difficult decisions)

 Context examples 

And why less noise, young Solomon?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And she doesn't know anything more about Darwin and evolution than I do about King Solomon's mines.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well has Solomon said—"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, west of the Marshall Islands and north of the Solomon Islands.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus)

Solomon his wisdom would not suffice to say what the rogue means.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His store of money exhausted, he had shipped before the mast on the treasure-hunting schooner; and the Solomon Islands, after eight months of failure to find treasure, had witnessed the breaking up of the expedition.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This cantle of wood is from the true cross, this other from Noah his ark, and the third is from the door-post of the temple of the wise King Solomon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)