ST. ANDREW

• ST. ANDREW (noun)
  The noun ST. ANDREW has 1 sense:

1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland

  Familiarity information: ST. ANDREW used as a noun is very rare.

• ST. ANDREW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew; Saint Andrew; Saint Andrew the Apostle; St. Andrew

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)

 Context examples 

Yet what knight was there in that hall of St. Andrew's who would not have gladly laid down youth, beauty, and all that he possessed to win the fame of this man?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrew’s, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Although I left the office at half past three, and was prowling about the place of appointment within a few minutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a full quarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's, Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull the private bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr. Waterbrook's house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even the squires' table at the Abbey of St. Andrew's at Bordeaux was on a very sumptuous scale while the prince held his court there.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There he dwells in the Abbey of St. Andrew, where he hath kept his court these years back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In front of the minster and abbey of St. Andrew's was a large square crowded with priests, soldiers, women, friars, and burghers, who made it their common centre for sight-seeing and gossip.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Bordeaux lists were, as has already been explained, situated upon the plain near the river upon those great occasions when the tilting-ground in front of the Abbey of St. Andrew's was deemed to be too small to contain the crowd.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I sold my spoil, mes garcons, for as many gold-pieces as I could hold in my hufken, and for seven days I lit twelve wax candles upon the altar of St. Andrew; for if you forget the blessed when things are well with you, they are very likely to forget you when you have need of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was on the morning of Friday, the eight-and-twentieth day of November, two days before the feast of St. Andrew, that the cog and her two prisoners, after a weary tacking up the Gironde and the Garonne, dropped anchor at last in front of the noble city of Bordeaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)