ST. JUDE

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

1. (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless

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

• ST. JUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Judas; Jude; Saint Jude; St. Jude; Thaddaeus

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 

Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University College London, and the Royal Free Hospital have been studying the long-term effectiveness and safety of using gene therapy to treat the disease.

(Gene Therapy Used to Treat Hemophilia, NIH)

A team led by Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital studied mutant mice that develop a condition resembling chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in humans.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)