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PHILIPPIANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Philippians mean? 

PHILIPPIANS (noun)
  The noun PHILIPPIANS has 1 sense:

1. a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Philippi in Macedoniaplay

  Familiarity information: PHILIPPIANS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PHILIPPIANS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Philippi in Macedonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians; Epistle to the Philippians; Philippians

Instance hypernyms:

Epistle (a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle)

Holonyms ("Philippians" 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)


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