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SUSANNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Susanna mean? 

SUSANNA (noun)
  The noun SUSANNA has 1 sense:

1. an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Danielplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SUSANNA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Susanna; Susanna

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

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

Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)


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