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ST. BEDA

Overview

ST. BEDA (noun)
  The noun ST. BEDA has 1 sense:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)play

  Familiarity information: ST. BEDA used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ST. BEDA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Baeda; Beda; Bede; Saint Baeda; Saint Beda; Saint Bede; St. Baeda; St. Beda; St. Bede; the Venerable Bede

Instance hypernyms:

Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)

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

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

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

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)


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