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LOAVES AND FISHES

Specialty Definition: LOAVES AND FISHES

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Literature

Loaves and Fishes With an eye to the loaves and fishes; for the sake of ... With a view to the material benefits to be derived. The crowd followed Jesus Christ, not for the spiritual doctrines which He taught, but for the loaves and fishes which He distributed amongst them.
"Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye seek Me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled."- John vi. 26. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: LOAVES AND FISHES

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Acquisition

Gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument; (remuneration).

Prosperity

Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.

Wealth

Pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: LOAVES AND FISHES

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Books

  • Loaves and Fishes (reference)

  • The Loaves and Fishes Cookbook (reference)

  • Country Weekend Entertaining: Seasonal Recipes from Loaves and Fishes and the Bridgehampton Inn (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: LOAVES AND FISHES

Illustrations:
LOAVES AND FISHES

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Photo Album: LOAVES AND FISHES

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Miracle of the loaves and fishes. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Modern Translation: LOAVES AND FISHES

Language Translations for "LOAVES AND FISHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

nyeremény jutalom. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oaveslay anday ishesfay

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Anagrams: LOAVES AND FISHES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-f-h-i-l-n-o-s-s-s-v"

-5 letters: adhesional, avidnesses, dealfishes, dovishness, flashiness, fleshiness, halfnesses, holinesses, lavishness, oafishness, ovalnesses, sandfishes, shinleaves, vandalises, voidnesses.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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