CHRIST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any expected deliverer

Synonyms:

christ; messiah

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("christ" is a kind of...):

deliverer; rescuer; savior; saviour (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

Synonyms:

Christ; Deliverer; Good Shepherd; Jesus; Jesus Christ; Jesus of Nazareth; Redeemer; Savior; Saviour; the Nazarene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Logos; Son; Word (the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus))

Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Instance hyponyms:

El Nino (the Christ child)

Derivation:

christian (following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ)

Christian (relating to or characteristic of Christianity)

christly (resembling or showing the spirit of Christ)

Credits

Context examples:

Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For dear Christ's sake, my fair lord, he cried in a crackling voice, I have at my belt a bag with a hundred rose nobles, and I will give it to you freely if you will but pass your sword through this man's body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite—whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ.