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Definition: Saint |
SaintNoun1. A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization. 2. Person of exceptional holiness. 3. Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal. Verb1. Hold sacred. 2. In the Catholic church; declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "saint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Satire | SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool.". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | SAINT 1. |
Bible | Saint one separated from the world and consecrated to God; one holy by profession and by covenant; a believer in Christ (Ps. 16:3; Rom. 1:7; 8:27; Phil. 1:1; Heb. 6:10). The "saints" spoken of in Jude 1:14 are probably not the disciples of Christ, but the "innumerable company of angels" (Heb. 12:22; Ps. 68:17), with reference to Deut. 33:2. This word is also used of the holy dead (Matt. 27:52; Rev. 18:24). It was not used as a distinctive title of the apostles and evangelists and of a "spiritual nobility" till the fourth century. In that sense it is not a scriptural title. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Geography | Inhabitant of Saint Helena. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Saint Kings and princes so called: - Edward the Martyr (961, 975-978). Edward the Confessor (1004, 1042-1066). Eric IX. of Sweden (*, 1155-1161). Etherlred I., King of Wessex (*, 866-871). Eugenius I., pope (*, 654-657). Felix I., pope (*, 269-274). Ferdinand III. of Castile and Leon (1200, 1217-1252). Julius I., pope (*, 337-352). Kâng-he, second of the Manchoo dynasty of China, who assumed the name of Chin-tsou-jin (1661-1722). Lawrence Justiniani, Patriarch of Venice (1380, 1451-1465). Leo IX., pope (1002, 1049-1054). Louis IX. of France (1215, 1226-1270). Olaus II. of Norway, brother of Harald III., called "St. Olaf the Double Beard" (984, 1026-1030). Stephen I. of Hungary (979, 997-1038). Dom Fernando, son of King John of Portugal, was, with his brother Henry, taken prisoner by the Moors at the siege of Tangier. The Portuguese general promised to give Ceuta for their ransom, and left Fernando in prison as their surety. The Portuguese government refused to ratify the condition, and Fernando was left in the hands of the Moors till he died. For this patriotic act he is regarded as a saint, and his day is June 5th. His brother Edward was king at the time. (1402-1443.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SAINT. A piece of spoilt timber in a coach-maker's shop, like a saint, devoted to the flames. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the New Testament, the term saint is used to describe any Christian believer, alive or dead, no matter what their importance in terms of church history. Many of Paul's letters are addressed 'to all the saints...' and sometimes '...along with the elders'. For example Ephesians opens with "...to the saints which are at Ephesus...". The term developed in later centuries, and took on much larger connotations. In the modern, secular usage it refers to simply a perfect or extremely pious person.
In the Catholic and Orthodox churches, a saint is more particularly a person who has been canonised (officially recognized) by a Christian church. This can only take place after their death; in Roman Catholicism, this is because even the holiest person alive may fall into mortal sin at the last moment; in Eastern Orthodoxy, it is more to avoid haste and allow ample time for sober reflection on the person's life. In many Protestant churches, the word is used more generally to refer to anyone who is a Christian. The remainder of this article will focus on "saints" as the term is used by Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Saints are thought to be able to act as intermediaries between God and people by praying to God on behalf of specific people, sometimes at the request of believers. Though some individuals are widely held to be saints in their lifetimes, they are not recognized so by churches. The word "saint" comes from the Latin word sanctus which means "holy." A few English-speaking Eastern Orthodox believers prefer to use the English word "holy" rather than "saint", or use the two terms interchangeably, and so will refer to St. Peter as "Holy Peter" or "the Holy Apostle Peter" for example. In most other languages, the word for "saint" would be more literally translated "holy", such as hagios in Greek, santo in Spanish, saint or sacre in French, etc. A related word in English is "sanctify", which means "to make holy". So in the broad sense of the word, "saint" can mean all those who have been sanctified, or all believers. The narrower and more common sense of the word today is those whom the Church has widely recognized as having been sanctified, as demonstrated in a number of different ways.
This practice explains why, in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, the names of angels are usually preceded by the name 'saint' despite their lack of a human existence - Saint Michael the Archangel never had to be canonized; the name means 'Holy Michael'.
The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church are the churches in which the veneration of saints is most common. They do not, however, honor all the same individuals as saints. Some of the reasons for differences are historical, rooted in the Great Schism. Others are local. In the Early Christian Church, treatment as a saint depended on local and regional recognition of an individual's sanctity and reputation of miracles. Most saints had only local devotional cults, and only the most famous - the apostles, the companions of Christ, persons mentioned in Scripture, and very few international celebrities - developed wide-spread devotion.
The Western church developed its institutionalized system of canonization shortly before the Great Schism, and so a highly organized calendar of observation of saints' days is seen in Roman Catholicism and a few of its break-away churches (the Anglican communion has partially preserved the idea of an organized attention to the saints). The Orthodox churches also have a calendar of saints' days, in some cases honoring saints on the same day as in the West. However, they often have more variation in which saints are remembered, since the calendars are largely determined by the different patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops.
Even inside the Roman Catholic church, there are different extents of devotion. Some saints' days are observed only in a single diocese {I don't know of any actual examples of that, but it's canonically possible}. Many are honored as saints in their own home region, and others are honored as saints only by a particular religious order. For instance, each monastic order honors many individuals who were members of that order with special saint-days who are ignored in the broader structure of parishes. In many Eastern Orthodox parishes, it is the custom to remember the names of members of that parish as part of the liturgical prayers long after those members have died.
A related practice is the veneration of relics. A relic is a part of a saint's body, often a small bone fragment. Relics are venerated or honored much in the same way that icons are venerated. The practice began during the early centuries when Christians had to hide in catacombs to escape persecution. In those circumstances, they were literally praying in the company of dead Christians. That reality, combined with belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the eventual resurrection of all believers, and the witnessing of miracles connected with relics, led to the current practice.
In both Western and Eastern churches, members often are given a "saint's name" or the name of a patron saint at the time of their chrismation (Eastern) or baptism (Western). This saint is given to that person to pray for them and intercede for them, and that person will give special honor to and pray to that saint. The date that the saint is honored in the church also becomes the new member's "saint's day" or "name day." Sometimes a person will become known in the church exclusively by their saint's name; then this name may be called the person's "ecclesial name", since it's the name by which they are known in the church.
In spite of this difference, the Western and Eastern churches do not hold a position on the (in)validity of the other's lists and calendars of saints, and do not consider the other's lists as relevant.
A number of people are venerated as saints who may never have actually existed; the polite term for this is 'ahistorical.' Sorting out exactly which saints are historical is difficult, because of the larger difficulty of proving a negative: the absence of independent records of a saint's existence doesn't prove she or he never existed, because there are no specific records of the existence of many people who lived before the 20th century. The hagiographical work of the Bollandists forms a major part of the historiography of named saints.
Related to this, some pre-Christian deities (specially in Rome's area) may have been adopted as saints. Some cults seem to have been Christianized fairly directly--for example, it is often asserted that Saint Brigid was a goddess before Christianity ever reached Ireland. However, the evidence for this lies mainly in a vague similarity of names. It is not unlikely that older beliefs and legends related to pre-Christian gods have been grafted onto the lives of humans who are venerated as saints.
The converse of this is the idea that not all saints are known to any church. For example, anyone who died for his or her Christian belief is counted as a saint, whether or not anyone knows about the martyrdom. The doctrine is that God creates saints, and the church merely recognizes them: even if no church knows of a martyr, God does. For this reason, both the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox celebrate All Saints' Day in commemoration of the "unknown" saints.
The concept of the bodhisattva in some schools of Buddhism is in some respects comparable to that of the Christian saint. Shortened form: It is claimed by some style and usage manuals that the correct shortened form of "Saint" in English is "St" without the dot, period or full stop, because it is a contraction not an abbreviation and includes the last letter of the word. Thus, according to this view, St Bernard is correct and St. Bernard is wrong. However, nearly all published books, in both British and American English, use "St.", with the dot. See also:
For the pioneering Australian punk band, see The Saints. There are also two actresses by the name of Saint: Eva Marie Saint and Sylvia Saint. Roger Moore was Simon Templar or The Saint in the 1960s TV series of the same name.
- List of saints
- Calendar of saints
- canonization
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Simon Templar is a fictional character in a series of books by Leslie Charteris. He is also known as "The Saint" due to his initials. He sometimes uses the nom de guerre Sebastian Tombs and also calls himself by sundry other names, all with the initials S.T., such as Sullivan Titwillow and Sugarman Treacle - the Saint has a boyish sense of humour. He frequently leaves a 'calling card' at the scenes of his 'crimes', consisting of a stick drawing of a man with a halo.Simon Templar started his career as a criminal, and burglary is often alluded to in the books. It is clear from the texts, however, that at the time of the books, all of his income derives from the pockets of the 'ungodly' (as he terms those who live by a less moral code than his own). There are several references to a 'ten percent collection fee' as he extracts large sums of money from his victims, the remainder being returned to its owners or given away. These unworthies include bent politicians, warmongers, indeed all the nastier forms of low life. "He claims he's a Robin Hood," bleats one of his victims, "but to me he's just a robbing hood."
The Saint has many partners in his escapades in the books, though none that lasted throughout the series. In the early books the most frequently recurring was Patricia Holm. Inspector Claude Eustace Teal could often by found attempting to put the Saint behind bars, although in the later books they can be found working in partnership.
The time period of the books begins in the 1920s and moves through the 1930s and 1940s quite recognisably as the series of about 45 books by Charteris progresses. In the early books most of the Saint's activities are clearly illegal (though directed at much worse characters). In the later books this becomes less true. In the books written during the period of WW2, The Saint (in common with many fictional maverick heroes) was recruited by the government to help with the war effort by tracking down spies and similar undercover work. The quality of writing also changes; early books have a freshness of spirit which becomes replaced to an extent by an air of cynicism in the later works. The most recent spate of books to appear are pale trashy imitations of the original, and seem to have been house-written by others, following the death of Charteris in 1993.
The character appeared in a long-running television show The Saint (1962), played by Roger Moore. Since then there have been several other actors who played him in less successful TV series, most notably Return of the Saint (1978) starring Ian Ogilvy (who outdid Moore in his interpretation of the Saint, in the view of some fans). A film with Val Kilmer in the title role was also made, but diverged far from the Charteris books.
Compare with: James Bond, The Persuaders
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SAINT | English | Salzburg Assembly Impact of the New Technology | N/A |
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Synonyms: SaintSynonyms: angel (n), apotheosis (n), holy man (n), holy person (n), ideal (n), nonesuch (n), nonpareil (n), nonsuch (n), paragon (n), canonize (v), enshrine (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras,mi-careme, feria, fiesta. |
Angel | Saint, patron saint, Madonna; invisible helpers. |
Benefactor | Noun: benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae; salt of the earth; (good man); auxiliary. |
Dueness | Phrase: civis Romanus sum; _ chaque saint sa chandelle. |
Friend | Favorer, fautor, patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need; (auxiliary). |
Good Man | Model, paragon; (perfection); good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent; saint; (piety); benefactor; philanthropist; Aristides; noble liver, pattern. |
Heterodoxy | Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker; ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan. |
Impiety | Bigot; saint; Pharisee; sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado. |
Judeo-Christian Revelation | Prophet; (seer); evangelist, apostle, disciple, saint; the Fathers, the Apostolical Fathers; Holy Men of old, inspired penmen. |
Pain | Intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot. |
Philanthropy | Phalansterianism, Saint Simonianism. |
Piety | Believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist; the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame, Our Lady. |
Safety | Safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield; (defense); guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You got to take Caen so you can take Saint Lo. (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) Ask your saint who he is. Ask him whom he's killed (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) Saint Peter (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) No, Dewey, this kid's a saint. You're his evil twin (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) I'm sorry that I used to be such a saint back then, and I'm such a prick now (The Family Man; writing credit: David Diamond; David Weissman) | |
Lyrics | You must be heaven’s saint (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand) I'm a sinner, I'm a saint (Bitch; performing artist: Meredith Brooks) Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go ("Sixteen Tons"; performing artist: Tennessee Ernie Ford) And Saint Peter calls us all out, (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vendetta for the Saint (1969) Le Saint prend l'affût (1966) Saint Matthew Passion (1966) The Bay of Saint Michel (1963) Saint of Devil's Island (1961) | |
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 | Photo #1 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Photo #2 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #13 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Photo #14 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #16 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The floating cross at the mouth of the trap. Excluding the statuette of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, which is traditionally always the same, each Rais places his own images of saints. The cross serves the functional purpose of helping the fishermen read the currents. Slack water is the most desirable time to start the fishing operation. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Figure 39. Current indicator invented by James Norman Carruthers in 1924. This meter works on the principle used in the Robinson anenometer. Left: picture of the unit. Right: unit open to view interior mechanism. This current meter was meant primarily for use by fishermen. It was first tested off the fireboat SAINT NICHOLAS off Great Yarmouth, Great Britain, in 1924. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site. Credit: NPS. |
 | Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevskii (1896-99), southwest view, Novosibirsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Autumn panorama, with log Church of Saint Nicholas (1846), southwest view, which was originally built near the site where Lake Baikal drains into the Angara River, Listvianka, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
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| "Rome - Pozzo Saint Ignace" by Rc Pause Commentary: "Rome - <br>plafond Pozzo Saint Ignace." | "Saint Peterburg. Russia" by Ogs Commentary: "Saint Peterburg. Russia." |
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 | Saint Bernard dog bark. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Matthew Arnold | Be neither saint nor sophist led, but be a man. |
Oscar Wilde | Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The virtues of society are vices of the saint. |
Saint Augustine | Lord give me chastity -- but not yet. |
| Cursed is everyone who placeth his hope in man. | |
| All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons. | |
Saint Francis Xavier | Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. |
Saint Patrick | All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right hands. |
William Cowper | Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He saw the plateau of Mont Saint Jean suddenly laid bare, and the front of the English army disappear |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He came of an old and illustrious Spanish family and you remember that he was one of the first followers of saint Ignatius |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is not a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Industry leaders include Jean-Louis David, Saint Algue, and Jean Claude Biguine--each with over 250 locations in France. (references) | |
The market for high-end or selective products, with names like Christian Dior, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Chanel, Givanchi, Yves Saint Laurent, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Nina Ricci is practically closed to Russian manufacturers. (references) | ||
High fashion retailer, F.J. Benjamin, recently signed a joint-venture agreement with the Gucci Group of Italy for the exclusive retailing and distribution of Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Sergio Rossi fashion brands in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cuba | On September 24, thousands of persons attended the various Masses held throughout the day in honor of the Virgin of Charity, the patron saint of the imprisoned. (references) |
Economic History | Barbados | Member of the Saint Lucia bar. (references) |
Haiti | Several new trade zones are planned, including an ambitious port project near Saint Louis du Sud. (references) | |
Human Rights | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The President of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Human Rights Association (SVGHRA) criticized the killing, asserting that it was unnecessary, irresponsible, and unlawful. (references) |
Mexico | According to an August report by the PRODH, vigilante violence continued during the year, and has resulted in the deaths of 73 persons from 1993 to 2000. On July 25, a mob of approximately 400 persons in Magdalena Petlacalco, a village outside Mexico City, beat Carlos Pacheco Beltran to death for trying to steal from a neighborhood church the jewelry left as offerings during a patron saint festival. (references) | |
Minorities | Lebanon | In October a Greek Orthodox church in Tripoli and the Saint Elias Maronite Church in Sidon were bombed. (references) |
Political Economy | Saint Lucia | Saint Lucia is a multiparty, parliamentary democracy and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. (references) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Kitts and Nevis is a multiparty, parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. (references) | |
Saint Lucia | In generally free and fair elections on December 3, Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony's Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) retained power, winning 14 seats in the Assembly. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mauritius | Suffrage is universal except for approximately 100 fishermen on 6- to 12-month contracts who are residents of the island of Saint Brandon. (references) |
Travel | Spain | In Madrid: May 2 (Madrid Community Day); May 15 (Feast of Saint Isidro, Patron Saint of Madrid), etc. (references) |
Mexico | These include May 10 - Mother's Day, and December 12 - Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe, the official Patron Saint of Mexico. (references) | |
Women | Saint Lucia | The Saint Lucia Crisis Center for Women in Castries and a second center in the southern town of Vieux monitor cases of physical and emotional abuse and help clients to deal with such problems as incest, nonpayment of child support, alcohol and drug abuse, homelessness, custody, and visitation rights. (references) |
Worker Rights | Haiti | In August Amanus Maillet, a Lavalas CASEC member in the Saint Marc commune in Artibonite, shut down the port demanding that FL militants replace all workers. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher" |
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Karl Lagerfeld | The funny thing is they made the same contest the year before and two years after. Nobody knows what happened to the other people from the other contests except me because the boy who got the prize for the dress, was Yves Saint Laurent. |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love. |
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| "Saint" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.19% of the time. "Saint" is used about 1,217 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 54.19% | 659 | 9,937 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.81% | 557 | 11,224 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,217 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "saint" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Saint | Last name | 400 | 21,927 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "saint". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Santa | Male | Italian | To be like a saint |
| Santino | Male | Italian | To be like a saint |
| Santo | Male | Italian | To be like a saint |
| Sancho | Male | Spanish | To be like a saint |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Saint Marc Co., Ltd. | Spain | Saint Gobain Cristaleria SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "saint": _ chaque saint sa chandelle ♦ Cape Saint Clair ♦ court of Saint James's ♦ East Saint Louis ♦ Edna Saint Vincent Millay ♦ enough to provoke a saint ♦ Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh ♦ federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis ♦ Glen Saint Mary ♦ gulf of Saint Lawrence ♦ have the patience of a saint ♦ Isle Saint Georg ♦ Lake Saint Louis ♦ Marine On Saint ♦ micro SAINT ♦ Mount Saint Helens ♦ North Saint Paul ♦ patron saint ♦ pillar saint ♦ plaster saint ♦ Port Saint Joe ♦ Port Saint John ♦ Port Saint Lucie ♦ Ruth Saint Denis ♦ Saint Agatha ♦ Saint Agnes's Eve ♦ Saint Albans ♦ Saint Amant ♦ Saint Andrew ♦ Saint Andrew the Apostle ♦ saint andrews cross ♦ Saint Andrew's cross ♦ Saint Andrew's cross bond ♦ Saint Andrews Static Language ♦ saint ann ♦ saint anne ♦ Saint Anselm ♦ Saint Ansgar ♦ Saint Anthony ♦ Saint Anthony's cross ♦ saint anthony's fire ♦ Saint Anthony's nut ♦ Saint Anthony's turnip ♦ Saint Athanasius ♦ saint augustine ♦ Saint Baeda ♦ Saint Barnaby's thistle ♦ Saint Beda ♦ Saint Bede ♦ Saint Benedict ♦ saint bernard ♦ Saint Bride ♦ Saint Bridget ♦ Saint Brigid ♦ Saint Catharine ♦ Saint Catharine's flower ♦ Saint Charles ♦ Saint Christopher ♦ Saint Clair ♦ Saint Clair Shor ♦ Saint Clairsvill ♦ Saint Cloud ♦ Saint Crispin ♦ Saint Croix ♦ Saint Croix Fall ♦ Saint Cuthbert's beads ♦ Saint Dabeoc's heath ♦ Saint David ♦ Saint Davids Chu ♦ Saint Denis ♦ Saint Distaff's Day ♦ Saint Dominic ♦ Saint Donatus ♦ Saint Edward ♦ Saint Edward the Confessor ♦ Saint Edward the Martyr ♦ saint elizabeth ♦ Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton ♦ Saint Elmo ♦ saint elmos fire ♦ Saint Elmo's fire ♦ Saint Elmo's light ♦ Saint Emilion ♦ Saint Eustatius ♦ Saint Francis ♦ Saint Francis of Assisi ♦ Saint Francis River ♦ Saint Francis Xavier ♦ Saint Francisvil ♦ Saint George ♦ Saint George Isl ♦ saint georges cross ♦ Saint George's cross ♦ Saint George's ensign ♦ Saint George's flag ♦ saint germain ♦ Saint Gobain glass ♦ Saint Gregory I ♦ Saint Hedwig ♦ Saint Helen ♦ Saint Helena. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "saint": Saint- Simonianism, Saint- Simonism, Saint-alban, Saint-amour, Saint-andre, Saint-ange, Saint-anne, Saint-antione, Saint-antoine, Saint-aubin, Saint-augustine, Saint-bernard, Saint-Bernard's-lily, saint-bertrand-de-comminges, Saint-brieuc, Saint-clair, Saint-cloud, Saint-cricq, saint-cult, Saint-Denis, Saint-etienne, Saint-exupery, Saint-fond, Saint-georges, Saint-germain, Saint-gilles, Saint-girons, Saint-gobain, Saint-hilaire, Saint-hubert, Saint-ignace, Saint-jacques, Saint-james, Saint-jean, Saint-jean-baptiste, Saint-jean-de-luz, Saint-jean-pied-de-port, Saint-John's-bread, saint-john's-wort, Saint-joire, Saint-joseph, Saint-jours, Saint-jude, Saint-just, Saint-lambert-des-bois, Saint-lary, Saint-lary-soulan, Saint-laurent, Saint-lazare, Saint-leon, saint-like, Saint-louis, Saint-luce, Saint-martin, Saint-maurice, Saint-maxime, Saint-merri, Saint-michel, Saint-Mihiel, Saint-mont, Saint-moritz, Saint-nicolas, Saint-omer, Saint-ouen, Saint-ouen-les-docks, Saint-palais, Saint-paul, Saint-phalle, Saint-Pierrais, Saint-Pierre, Saint-preux, Saint-priest, Saint-rambert, Saint-remy-en-provence, Saint-saens, Saint-sardos, Saint-sauveur, Saint-sauveur-le-vicomte, Saint-savin, Saint-savin', Saint-sever-de-rustan, Saint-Siège, Saint-simon, Saint-Simonian, Saint-Simonianism, Saint-Simonism, Saint-vaast-la-hogue, Saint-vanne, Saint-venant, Saint-victor, Saint-vil, Saint-vincent, Saint-vulbas. | |
Ending with "saint": Vidal-saint. | |
Containing "saint": arette-pierre-saint-martin, Pierre-saint-martin, Vidal-saint-phalle. | |
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| Language | Translations for "saint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Sint Helena (Saint Helena). (various references) | |
Albanian | Shenjt, I Shenjtë (consecrated, divine, heavenly, holy, sacramental, sacred, sacrosanct, sainted, saintlike, saintly). (various references) | |
Arabic | قديس (patron, saintly, st.), ولي تقي (holy man). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свети (st.), Канонизиран, Канонизирам, Свят, Светец, Светия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 聖人 , 聖徒 , 聖 (holy, sacred, sage), 圣徒. (various references) | |
Czech | Svatý (blessed, holy, perfect, sacred, saintlike, saintly, st, unfailing), Svìtec. (various references) | |
Danish | fra Saint Helena (Saint Helenian). (various references) | |
Dutch | heilige (holy man). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sanktulo, sanktulino. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقدس شمردن (Sancify), مقدس (Holy, Innocent, Numinous, Sacred, Sacrosanct, Sanctimonious), عنوان روحانیون مثل 'حضرت ', جزومقدسین واولیاء محسوب داشتن , اولیاء , ادم پرهیزکار. (various references) | |
Finnish | sainthelenalainen (Saint Helenian), pyhimys. (various references) | |
French | Saint (sacred, saintly). (various references) | |
Frisian | hillige (holy man). (various references) | |
German | Sankt (st), Heilige (sacredly), Heiliger (hallower, holier). (various references) | |
Greek | άγια (St.), άγιοσ (blessed, holy, saintlike, saintly), άγιος (saintly, St.). (various references) | |
Guarani | santo. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Szent (blessed, bounden, hallow, have a holy fear of sg, hieratic, holy, holy man, sainted, saintly, sanctified, shrine, st.). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang suci (hallow). (various references) | |
Irish | naomh. (various references) | |
Italian | Santo (blessed, holy, sacred), santa (sacredly). (various references) | |
