Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Ambrose, Saint A.D. 340?-397. Writer, composer, and bishop of Milan (374-397) who imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian Church.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Ambrosia.
- n. An early English name of the Jerusalem oak, Chenopodium Botrys, and also of the wood-sage, Teucrium Scorodonia.
Wiktionary
- n. A male given name.
- n. A patronymic surname.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See ambrosia, 3.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)
Etymologies
- From Latin saints' name Ambrosius, from Ancient Greek ἀμβρόσιος (ambrosios, "immortal, divine"). (Wiktionary)
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