MATTHEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Matthew mean? 

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

1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel

2. one of the Gospels in the New Testament; includes the Sermon on the Mount

  Familiarity information: MATTHEW used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATTHEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Levi; Matthew; Saint Matthew; Saint Matthew the Apostle; St. Matthew; St. Matthew the Apostle

Instance hypernyms:

Apostle ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel)

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 Gospels in the New Testament; includes the Sermon on the Mount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Gospel According to Matthew; Matthew

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)

Holonyms ("Matthew" 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 

There is Lord Neville, Sir Stephen Cossington, and Sir Matthew Gourney, with Sir Walter Huet, Sir Thomas Banaster, and Sir Thomas Felton, who is the brother of the high steward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Nearly every disease killing us in later life has a causal link to lack of sleep," said the article's senior author, Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.

(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This speedy appearance of life on Earth fits with other evidence of recently discovered 3,700 million year old sedimentary mounds that were shaped by microorganisms, first author, PhD student Matthew Dodd explained.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For a sonnet on Stevenson he managed to wring two dollars out of a Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny- dreadful purse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Tragically, the disasters claimed a total of 138 lives: • 1 drought (affected multiple areas);
• 1 wildfire (affected multiple areas); • 4 inland floods;
• 8 severe storms; and
• 1 hurricane (Matthew).

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

We now have direct evidence that the cold accretion model is a viable explanation for rapid star formation in distant galaxies, says Matthew Benacquista, a program director in the National Science Foundation

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

The investigators have shown that a lipid (a fat-like substance) called 12,13-diHOME that circulates in the blood signals brown fat cells in mice to fuel up with other lipids, said Matthew Lynes, a Joslin postdoctoral researcher

(Giving Brown Fat A Green Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To understand how stars like the sun and planets like Earth came to be, we must understand how galaxies, such as our Milky Way, form and evolve, said Matthew Benacquista, a project director in NSF's division of Astronomical Sciences.

(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)

Now, new analysis of the object — formally named 1I/2017 U1, with a common name of 'Oumuamua — by an international team of astronomers and co-led by University of Maryland associate research scientist Matthew Knight has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)

A research team led by Drs. Zoe F. Mann and Matthew W. Kelley at NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) suspected that a molecular concentration gradient may guide the cells during development.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)