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SUSANNA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Susanna mean?
• SUSANNA (noun)
The noun SUSANNA has 1 sense:
1. an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel
Familiarity information: SUSANNA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Book of Susanna; Susanna
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Susanna" is a part of...):
Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
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