ST. JAMES

• ST. JAMES (noun)
  The noun ST. JAMES has 1 sense:

1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament

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

• ST. JAMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James; Saint James; Saint James the Apostle; St. James; St. James the Apostle

Instance hypernyms:

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

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)

 Context examples 

"Colonel Brandon, I think, lodges in St. James Street," said he, soon afterwards, rising from his chair.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

At the end of the second week I met him coming down St. James’s Street in a snuff-coloured coat cut by a country tailor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you often dance at St. James's?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By St. James of Compostella! but these burghers would bear some taxing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Sarasate plays at the St. James’s Hall this afternoon,” he remarked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had reached Pall Mall as we talked, and were walking down it from the St. James’s end.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a host of the stone age that we were accompanying to battle—we with the last word of the gunsmith's art from St. James' Street and the Strand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, by St. James! we shall not let these Moors make mock at us from over the sea.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But my talk has been somewhat triste, sister Mary, and now we shall return, if you please, to the dresses of the Countess Lieven, and the gossip of St. James.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a dense phalanx, blocking the streets from side to side, the crowd set forth, taking the route of Regent Street, Pall Mall, St. James's Street, and Piccadilly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)