Synonyms for saint
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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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1. Christophe Galtier.Read MoreThe:

   The most important thing is to score goals, that is in Paris Saint-Germain's DNA and the DNA of the players here, so there is real satisfaction with those two elements of our game, attacking in numbers with lots of technical quality, and defending as a team.

2. Kanye West:

   Being in competition with so many elements at one time. On a race against time, your age, you're getting old, race against popularity on the radio. ' Saint Pablo' ain't playing.

3. Nelson Mandela:

   I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

4. Michael Zeldin:

   In some sense, Paul Manafort has already testified through the admission of Paul Manafort emails, as a prosecutor, you can say Gates was credible. He's not a saint, he's an admitted sinner, he's going to go to jail for his sins, but what he told you today is true. We know it's true because of all the other witnesses who we'll go through the testimony of, and all the documentary evidence which we'll go through, including emails from Mr. Paul Manafort, that corroborate Paul Manafort testimony.

5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

   This is an exciting new discovery of an authentic double-sided sheet by the master (1452-1519), representing on the recto the full figure of the martyred Saint Sebastian tied to a tree in a landscape, and on the verso, notes and diagrams about light and shadow, which relate to Leonardo’s study of optics.