JUDAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Judas mean? 

• JUDAS (noun)
  The noun JUDAS has 4 senses:

1. (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless

2. (New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver

3. someone who betrays under the guise of friendship

4. a one-way peephole in a door

  Familiarity information: JUDAS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Judas; Jude; Saint Jude; St. Jude; Thaddaeus

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Judas; Judas Iscariot

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

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 3

Meaning:

Someone who betrays under the guise of friendship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Judas" is a kind of...):

betrayer; double-crosser; double-dealer; traitor; two-timer (a person who says one thing and does another)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A one-way peephole in a door

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("judas" is a kind of...):

eyehole; peephole; spyhole (a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep)

 Context examples 

I had forgot the pasty, and it will be as scorched as Judas Iscariot!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke, that bent his brow; now St. John's long hair that waved; and anon the devilish face of Judas, that grew out of the panel, and seemed gathering life and threatening a revelation of the arch-traitor—of Satan himself—in his subordinate's form.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Could we do no more, we had at least filled the false knight, Sir Judas, so full of English arrows that he would curse the day that ever he came on such an errand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)