ST. MARTIN

 Dictionary entry overview: What does St. Martin mean? 

• ST. MARTIN (noun)
  The noun ST. MARTIN has 2 senses:

1. French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)

2. an island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands

  Familiarity information: ST. MARTIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ST. MARTIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Martin; St. Martin

Instance hypernyms:

bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Saint Maarten; Saint Martin; St. Maarten; St. Martin

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("St. Martin" is a part of...):

Leeward Islands (a group of islands in the eastern West Indies)

 Context examples 

By the way, I take the chair at a supper of the Fancy at the Waggon and Horses in St. Martin’s Lane next Friday.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My shortest way home,—and I naturally took the shortest way on such a night—was through St. Martin's Lane.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By St. Martin of Tours! shouted the fat knight, his wrath all changed in an instant to joy, if it is not my dear little game rooster of the Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With all my heart, if you will be a brave St. Martin, stopping as you ride gallantly through the world to share your cloak with the beggar.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One was in a court close to St. Martin's Church—at the back of the church,—which is now removed altogether.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)