ST. PAUL

 Dictionary entry overview: What does St. Paul mean? 

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

1. capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities

2. (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ST. PAUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Minnesota; Saint Paul; St. Paul

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

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

Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State (a midwestern state)

Holonyms ("St. Paul" is a member of...):

Twin Cities (nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Apostle of the Gentiles; Apostle Paul; Paul; Paul the Apostle; Saint Paul; Saul; Saul of Tarsus; St. Paul

Context example:

Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity

Instance hypernyms:

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

missionary; missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)

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 

“By St. Paul! it would be a very sorry thing if we suffered you to be the worse of this day's work,” said Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To have, as I may say, all friends round St. Paul's at once, is a treat unlooked for!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The great oven is not so wide, by ten paces, as the cupola at St. Paul’s: for I measured the latter on purpose, after my return.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Yes, 17 King Edward Street, near St. Paul’s.

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

With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Its capital is St. Paul.

(Minnesota, NCI Thesaurus)

By St. Paul! said he, I am right glad; for I had feared that we might have neither provant nor herbergage.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)