LAZARUS

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• LAZARUS (noun)
  The noun LAZARUS has 2 senses:

1. the person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death

2. the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar

  Familiarity information: LAZARUS used as a noun is rare.

• LAZARUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

dead person; dead soul; deceased; deceased person; decedent; departed (someone who is no longer alive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)

 Context examples 

One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)