Paul
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3.0
- proper noun
- /pɔl/
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- The organisations have written to care services minister Paul Burstow seeking government backing for the campaign.
Examples
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No, thanks, Paul, not before dinner.
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You go on home, Paul.
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I wanna know where Paul and Annie are.
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- How many patients are you treating here, Paul?
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St Paul said, 'Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.'
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Slowly, like a robot, she goes to Paul, who looks silently up at her.
Fiction book (1990) -
Neither spoke to me again, and Paul wheeled the chair outside on the wet ramp.
Fiction book (1990) -
Paul Sharp and Ted Keep, two crisply-named young men, tonight on "Biography."
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Last year, on the anniversary of Paul Revere's ride, George Pataki turned up in Boston.
Academic text (2011) -
St Paul traveled extensively to spread the message of Christianity.
Synonyms
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6.1
The original name of Paul, a Christian leader
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5.7
A Christian missionary who spread Christianity across the Roman world and wrote letters in the New Testament
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7.2
A Christian leader who taught non-Jewish people and wrote letters to early churches
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3.6
A Christian leader who taught people about Jesus and wrote letters in the New Testament
A Christian leader from long ago who wrote many letters in the New Testament
The original name of Paul the Apostle, an early Christian missionary and writer
A title for Saint Paul, a Christian leader who spreads Christianity to non-Jewish people
Compounds
A short letter in the Christian Bible from Paul asking Philemon to forgive his runaway slave
A short Bible letter from Paul giving advice about church leaders
A book of the Christian Bible that Paul wrote to the Christians in Colossae
A New Testament letter by Paul to the people of Ephesus about being saved through Christ
A book in the Christian Bible with Paul's letter to people in Galatia
A book of the New Testament that is a letter Paul wrote to Christians in Philippi
A book in the Christian Bible that explains Paul's teachings to Christians in Rome
A short New Testament letter that gives advice to a church leader named Timothy about teaching and behavior
A letter in the Christian Bible from Paul to the church in Corinth
A New Testament book that contains Paul's first letter to the Christians in Thessalonica
A New Testament book that is Paul's second letter to the church at Corinth
A book in the New Testament that is a letter from Paul to the people in Thessalonica
A short Bible letter from Paul giving advice and encouragement to Timothy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Paul comes from the Latin Paulus, which means 'small' or 'humble'. A helpful way to remember the New Testament Paul is to think of him taking a humble name as he travelled and wrote letters to many people, so his name helps us remember his humble work.