II ESDRAS

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Meaning:

An Apocryphal book of angelic revelations

Synonyms:

2 Esdras; II Esdras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("II Esdras" 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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