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SAINT LUKE

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Meaning:

(New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel

Synonyms:

Luke; Saint Luke; St. Luke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Apostelic Father; Apostle (any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people)

Evangelist ((when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)

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

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)

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