LUKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Luke mean? 

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

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

2. one of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains details of Jesus's birth and early life

  Familiarity information: LUKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Luke; Saint Luke; St. Luke

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains details of Jesus's birth and early life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Gospel According to Luke; Gospel of Luke; Luke

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

evangel; Gospel; Gospels (the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings)

Domain member category:

Abraham's bosom; bosom of Abraham (the place where the just enjoy the peace of heaven after death)

Magnificat ((Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning 'Magnificat anima mea Dominum'))

Holonyms ("Luke" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

He wears, as you perceive, the vernicle of Sainted Luke, the first physician, upon his sleeve.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, Watson,” said he, “it is time we went down to St. Luke’s. Can you do without breakfast?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Planets that orbit two stars are known as circumbinary planets, or sometimes “Tatooine” planets, after Luke Skywalker’s home world in “Star Wars.”

(New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Orfling and I stood looking vacantly at each other in the middle of the road, and then shook hands and said good-bye; she going back, I suppose, to St. Luke's workhouse, as I went to begin my weary day at Murdstone and Grinby's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

We can scarce hope, said Nigel, to have all ready for our start before the feast of St. Luke, for there is much to be done in the time.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here it was that one evening we received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr. Hilton Soames, tutor and lecturer at the College of St. Luke’s.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These, and a dark-complexioned young woman, with a habit of snorting, who was servant to the family, and informed me, before half an hour had expired, that she was a Orfling, and came from St. Luke's workhouse, in the neighbourhood, completed the establishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)