ST. JOSEPH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does St. Joseph mean? 

• ST. JOSEPH (noun)
  The noun ST. JOSEPH has 2 senses:

1. a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express

2. the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets

  Familiarity information: ST. JOSEPH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ST. JOSEPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint Joseph; St. Joseph

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

acetylsalicylic acid; aspirin; Bayer; Empirin; St. Joseph

Hypernyms ("St. Joseph" is a kind of...):

analgesic; anodyne; pain pill; painkiller (a medicine used to relieve pain)

salicylate (a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs))

Meronyms (substance of "St. Joseph"):

2-hydroxybenzoic acid; salicylic acid (a white crystalline substance with a bitter aftertaste; used as a fungicide or in making aspirin or dyes or perfumes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "St. Joseph"):

aspirin powder; headache powder (a powdered form of aspirin)

buffered aspirin; Bufferin (aspirin coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (trade name Bufferin))

enteric-coated aspirin (aspirin that is treated to pass through the stomach unaltered and to dissolve in the intestines)

Domain usage:

trade name (a name given to a product or service)

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

 Context examples 

There are, I pray God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary, many, many, happy years for you both.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dear Madam,—I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)