ST. LUKE

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

1. (New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel

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

• ST. LUKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Luke; Saint Luke; St. Luke

Instance hypernyms:

Apostelic Father; Apostle (any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people)

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)

 Context examples 

“Well, Watson,” said he, “it is time we went down to St. Luke’s. Can you do without breakfast?”

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

We can scarce hope, said Nigel, to have all ready for our start before the feast of St. Luke, for there is much to be done in the time.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Orfling and I stood looking vacantly at each other in the middle of the road, and then shook hands and said good-bye; she going back, I suppose, to St. Luke's workhouse, as I went to begin my weary day at Murdstone and Grinby's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here it was that one evening we received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr. Hilton Soames, tutor and lecturer at the College of St. Luke’s.

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

St. Luke's day had come and had gone, and it was in the season of Martinmas, when the oxen are driven in to the slaughter, that the White Company was ready for its journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These, and a dark-complexioned young woman, with a habit of snorting, who was servant to the family, and informed me, before half an hour had expired, that she was a Orfling, and came from St. Luke's workhouse, in the neighbourhood, completed the establishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We have had a very painful incident at St. Luke’s, and really, but for the happy chance of your being in town, I should have been at a loss what to do.

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