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KNOX

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Overview

KNOX (noun)
  The noun KNOX has 1 sense:

1. Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


KNOX (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Knox; Knox

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)


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