Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Early Christian noted for his missionary work among the cities of the Roman Empire. His epistles, included in the New Testament, are among the earliest and most influential sources of Christian theology.
  • Alice,American feminist who founded (1916) the National Woman's Party and wrote (1923) the first equal rights amendment to be considered by the US Congress.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To puzzle.
  • noun See pawl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See pawl.
  • noun An Italian silver coin. See paolo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun In the New Testament, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
  • proper noun A male given name of biblical origin.
  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun United States feminist (1885-1977)
  • noun (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle

Etymologies

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From Latin Paulus, from paulus ("small").

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Examples

  • RAND PAUL DELIVERS MAIDEN SENATE SPEECH, COMPARES TEA PARTY TO ABOLITIONISTS - Despite the well-established fact that John Brown spent his years dressing up like a minuteman, proudly not voting for his senator and bringing his own collapsible lawn furniture to political rallies, Senator Rand Paul felt the need to reiterate his movement's similarity's to America's anti-slavery activists today.

    HUFFPOST HILL - HCR Repeal Measure Fails In Senate Eliot Nelson 2011

  • RAND PAUL DELIVERS MAIDEN SENATE SPEECH, COMPARES TEA PARTY TO ABOLITIONISTS - Despite the well-established fact that John Brown spent his years dressing up like a minuteman, proudly not voting for his senator and bringing his own collapsible lawn furniture to political rallies, Senator Rand Paul felt the need to reiterate his movement's similarity's to America's anti-slavery activists today.

    HUFFPOST HILL - HCR Repeal Measure Fails In Senate Eliot Nelson 2011

  • PAUL KREKORIAN - Paul showed his true nature as a professional politician at the forum.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • HEATHER MILLS, FORMER WIFE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY: I'm basically standing here because Paul is insisting -- insistent on the whole judgment being put out.

    CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008 2008

  • TINA GILL-LAMPART, PAUL GILLS 'WIDOW: My son Joshua and I were waiting for the school bus in the morning and Paul came, drove by.

    CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2006 2006

  • TINA GILL-LAMPART, PAUL GILLS 'WIDOW: My son Joshua and I were waiting for the school bus in the morning and Paul came, drove by.

    CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2006 2006

  • TINA GILL-LAMPART, PAUL GILLS 'WIDOW: My son Joshua and I were waiting for the school bus in the morning and Paul came, drove by.

    CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006 2006

  • PAUL V (Camillo Borghese), whose reign was distinguished by the Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), scholar, humanitarian, and theologian whose book On the Power of the Supreme Pontiff in Temporal Affairs (1610) may have encouraged Paul to press papal prerogatives in Venice; the ensuing conflict ended in a Venetian victory.

    1605-21 2001

  • PERRY MASON, SEATED IN PAUL DRAKE'S OFFICE, SAID, "Paul, I want you to turn your men loose on the new car agencies and find out if a new car has recently been sold to a Watson Clammert."

    The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

  • PAUL What about binge drinking Paul, I mean you've done some stats I know over recent years at Wellington Hospital.

    NZ On Screen 2010

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