ST. JOHN

 Dictionary entry overview: What does St. John mean? 

• ST. JOHN (noun)
  The noun ST. JOHN has 3 senses:

1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation

2. a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy

3. a port in eastern Canada; the largest city in New Brunswick

  Familiarity information: ST. JOHN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ST. JOHN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John; John the Divine; John the Evangelist; Saint John; Saint John the Apostle; St. John; St. John the Apostle

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

Evangelist ((when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Saint John; Saint John River; St. John; St. John River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("St. John" is a part of...):

New Brunswick (a province in southeastern Canada)

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State (a state in New England)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A port in eastern Canada; the largest city in New Brunswick

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint John; St. John

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("St. John" is a part of...):

New Brunswick (a province in southeastern Canada)

 Context examples 

Aye; St. John is like his kirstened name.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John’s Wood.

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

Now we shall have to wait for that procession to pass. It's going to the Church of St. John.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An anthraquinone derivative that is naturally found in the yellow flower of Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort) with antidepressant, potential antiviral, antineoplastic and immunostimulating activities.

(Hypericin, NCI Thesaurus)

By his black robe and the eight-pointed cross upon his sleeve, Alleyne recognized him as one of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, whose presbytery was at Baddesley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He let them go then, and we flashed through Friar’s Oak and across St. John’s Common without more than catching a glimpse of the yellow cottage which contained all that I loved best.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also called St. John's wort.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Dictionary)

Its capital is St. John's

(Newfoundland and Labrador, NCI Thesaurus)

"St. John, who is it?" I heard one ask.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have been up on St. John’s Common upon a dark night, and, lying among the bracken, I have seen as many as seventy mules and a man at the head of each go flitting past me as silently as trout in a stream.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)