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JOSEPH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
carpenter (a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel; Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, which made his brothers jealous and they sold him into slavery in Egypt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
patriarch (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)
Domain category:
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)
Synonyms:
Chief Joseph; Joseph
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Nez Perce (a member of a tribe of the Shahaptian people living on the pacific coast)
Indian chief; Indian chieftain (the leader of a group of Native Americans)
Context examples:
The study, led by Dr. Joseph Sparano and published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that women who had small tumors that had not spread to the lymph nodes did almost as well with medications as those who received chemotherapy.
(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)
MAVEN has made the first direct detection of the permanent presence of metal ions in the ionosphere of a planet other than Earth, said Joseph Grebowsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
(Mars Has Metal in Its Atmosphere, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The work is the result of a collaboration among Naveen Bisht, a scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India; Joseph Jez, a plant biologist at Washington University; and Jonathan Gershenzon of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.
(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)
Perhaps you would prefer that Joseph came with us so as to look after me?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a saucer.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Ho there! lay-brothers—Francis, Naomi, Joseph—seize him and bind his arms!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Do you know, he said at last, I've had that same criticism passed on me once before—by a very great man, a scientist and evolutionist, Joseph Le Conte.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I shouted, however, and that brought Joseph down, and he roused the others.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dear Madam,—I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
