Synonyms for saint
seɪntsaint

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1. Saintnoun

   A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.

   Saint Stephen was the first martyr.

   Synonyms:
   St, St.

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1. saintnoun

   a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

   Synonyms:
   nonsuch, apotheosis, holy man, nonesuch, angel, nonpareil, paragon, ideal, holy person

2. saint, holy man, holy person, angelnoun

   person of exceptional holiness

   Synonyms:
   nonsuch, backer, apotheosis, holy man, nonesuch, angel, nonpareil, paragon, ideal, holy person

3. ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuchverb

   model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

   Synonyms:
   nonsuch, deification, perfection, ideal, apotheosis, exaltation, holy man, idol, angel, nonpareil, paragon, nonesuch, holy person, beau ideal

4. enshrine, saintverb

   hold sacred

   Synonyms:
   shrine, enshrine, canonise, canonize

5. canonize, canonise, saintverb

   declare (a dead person) to be a saint

   "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"

   Synonyms:
   canonise, enshrine, canonize

Matched Categories

1. • Declare
   • Deity
   • Religion
   • Venerate

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1. saintnoun

   Synonyms:
   holy person

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1. saintnoun

   Associated words:
   canonize, canonization, hagiology, hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, hagiographa, dulia, legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine, saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca

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1. List of paraphrases for "saint":

   st., santa, holy, san, st, sainte, sant, santo, saintly, sankt, shing, sint

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How to use saint in a sentence?

1. Victor Hugo:

   What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

2. Katherine Tynan Hinkson:

   To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

3. Tishaura Jones:

   You see crime escalating. It’s growing. The philosophy of doing what you want to do and not fit in is absolutely growing here in the metropolitan area. Even though the city of Saint Louis talks about there is a reduction in murders, and things of that nature, but we know that those numbers are somewhat fabricated.

4. Thomas Fuller:

   He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

5. Corrina Gould:

   He did the bidding of the Catholic Church and the Spanish crown and his own ego, someone who was a saint would have done something above what he did, would have seen the devastation he created with his missions in Mexico and stopped it.