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    ST. AUGUSTINE

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A resort city in northeastern Florida; the oldest city in the United Statesplay

    Synonyms:

    Saint Augustine; St. Augustine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

    Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430)play

    Synonyms:

    Augustine; Augustine of Hippo; Saint Augustine; St. Augustine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Instance hypernyms:

    Church Father; Father; Father of the Church ((Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom)

    Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)

    saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

    theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

    Domain category:

    Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

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