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saint
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
- (UK, as an unstressed, capitalised title) IPA(key): /s?n(t)/, /s?n(t)/
Etymology 1
From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sanctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancire (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English h?lga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).
Noun
saint (plural saints)
- A person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
- Kateri Tekakwitha was proclaimed a saint.
- (figuratively, by extension) A person with positive qualities; one who does good.
- Dorothy Day was a living saint.
- Thanks for looking after the house while I'm away. You're a saint!
- One of the blessed in heaven.
- (archaic) A holy object.
Synonyms
- (holy person): hallow (obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- hallow
- holos
- holy
Etymology 2
From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).
Verb
saint (third-person singular simple present saints, present participle sainting, simple past and past participle sainted)
- (transitive) To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint.
- Many wish to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately.
Translations
Further reading
- saint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- saint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Astin, Insta, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, sat in, satin, stain, stian, tians, tisan
French
Etymology
From Latin sanctus (“holy”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophones: sain, sains, saints, sein, seing, seings, seins, ceins, ceint, ceints
Noun
saint m (plural saints, feminine sainte)
- saint
Adjective
saint (feminine singular sainte, masculine plural saints, feminine plural saintes)
- saintly (all meanings)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “saint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tians
Irish
Etymology
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Noun
saint f (genitive singular sainte)
- greed, avarice, covetousness
- great eagerness, desire
Declension
Synonyms
- cíocras, gabhálacht (“avarice”)
Mutation
Norman
Etymology
From Old French saint, from Latin sanctus (“holy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
saint m
- (Jersey) holy
Noun
saint m (plural saints)
- (Jersey, religion) saint
Old French
Alternative forms
- sanct (rare)
- saent (rare)
- seint (common, chiefly Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Latin sanctus
Noun
saint m (oblique plural sainz or saintz, nominative singular sainz or saintz, nominative plural saint)
- saint
Declension
Adjective
saint m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sainte)
- holy
- pious; devout
Descendants
- ? English: saint
- French: saint
- Norman: saint (Jersey)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sai?nt/
Noun
saint m pl (not mutable)
- plural of sant
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heathen
English
Etymology
From Middle English hethen, from Old English h?þen, from Proto-West Germanic *haiþin, from Proto-Germanic *haiþinaz (“heathen, pagan”, adj), equivalent to heath (“heathland”) +? -en. Cognate with West Frisian heiden, Dutch heiden, Middle High German heiden, Swedish heden, Icelandic heiðinn. See also Proto-Germanic *haiduz, Old Norse heiðr (honour, bright, moor), Icelandic heiður (honour).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hi?ð?n/
- Rhymes: -i?ð?n
Adjective
heathen (not comparable)
- Not adhering to Christian religion (though usually excluding the Jews); pagan.
- (by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
- Alternative letter-case form of Heathen (pertaining or adhering to the Germanic neo-pagan faith Heathenry).
Translations
Noun
heathen (plural heathens or heathen)
- A person who does not follow a Christian religion; a pagan.
- V. Knox
- If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
- 1930, H. E. Bolton, Anza's California expeditions (volume 1, page 403)
- On hearing his cries two heathen who were hunting on the lagoon ran up, and they were bold enough to try to avenge the injury, making ready to shoot arrows at the soldiers, who fired two gunshots just to frighten them […]
- V. Knox
- (by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
- Alternative letter-case form of Heathen (an adherent of the Germanic neo-pagan faith of Heathenry).
Coordinate terms
- (religionists) religionist; Baha'i,? Buddhist,? Christian,? deist,? Druid,? Eckist,? heathen,? Hindu,? Jain,? Jedi,? Jew,? Mormon,? Mormonist,? Muslim,? Odinist,? pagan,? Pastafarian,? Rastafarian,? Raëlian,? Shintoist,? Sikh,? Taoist,? Unitarian Universalist,? Yazidi,? Wiccan,? Zoroastrian (Category: en:Religion) [edit]
Derived terms
Further reading
- heathen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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