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CHRISTOPHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Christian martyr and patron saint of travellers (3rd century)
Synonyms:
Christopher; Saint Christopher; St. Christopher
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
patron saint (a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation)
Context examples:
Added Christopher Schneider, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, This analysis of climate’s contributions to range shifts and local extinction improves our ability to predict and manage the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.
(One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years, National Science Foundation)
The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler - the miniscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star.
(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)
Father Christopher comes over after nones from the priory, but he is stricken with years and slow of speech, so that she gets small profit from his teaching.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Don't put your hands behind you, or stare, or say 'Christopher Columbus!' will you?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Something of a theatre we must have undoubtedly, but it will be on the simplest plan: a green curtain and a little carpenter's work, and that's all; and as the carpenter's work may be all done at home by Christopher Jackson himself, it will be too absurd to talk of expense; and as long as Jackson is employed, everything will be right with Sir Thomas.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then you are no better than Father Christopher and the rest of them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two others, flying together, tore a great gap in the St. Christopher upon the sail, and brushed three of Sir Oliver's men-at-arms from the forecastle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, St. Christopher be praised! here is Sir Nigel, with whom I may confer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pardieu! said the knight, this David Micheldene must be one of those Lollards about whom Father Christopher of the priory had so much to say.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“May the holy Julian stand by us and the thrice-sainted Christopher!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
