Saint Jude
- proper noun
- /seɪnt dʒuːd/
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San Judas
- The church held a special service honoring Saint Jude, the patron of desperate cases.
Examples
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She lit a candle and whispered a prayer to Saint Jude for help with her financial troubles.
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Many people pray to Saint Jude when they are facing seemingly impossible situations.
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Many people pray to Saint Jude for help in difficult times.
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Have you ever asked Saint Jude for guidance?
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Many people pray to Saint Jude when they are facing seemingly impossible situations.
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She lit a candle and whispered a prayer to Saint Jude for help with her financial troubles.
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The church held a special service honoring Saint Jude, the patron of desperate cases.
Synonyms
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7.1
An apostle and saint who people pray to for help in very bad situations
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8.5
One of Jesus' followers whom people pray to for hopeless problems
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6.7
A Christian saint and one of Jesus's twelve followers who people ask for help with hopeless problems
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9.9
One of Jesus's twelve followers whom people often ask for help in very difficult or hopeless situations
A Christian saint who was one of Jesus' twelve followers and whom people pray to for help in desperate situations
Surface Forms
Morphology
The form is compositionally interpretable: a B1 learner who knows 'saint' and the name 'Jude' can infer this refers to a holy person called Jude. However, the specific cultural role — being traditionally invoked for desperate or hopeless situations — is encyclopedic/cultural knowledge not derivable from the constituents alone, so the meaning is only partly predictable.
Etymology
Saint Jude was one of Jesus' twelve followers and became the saint people pray to in very hard or 'desperate' situations. One popular story says his name was often mixed up with Judas Iscariot, so people did not ask him for help and he became the special helper for cases that seemed hopeless. That's why calling on Saint Jude means asking for help in a 'desperate' or 'hopeless' situation.