Definition of Saint Johns

1. Noun. A river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean.

Exact synonyms: Saint Johns River, St. Johns, St. Johns River
Group relationships: Everglade State, Fl, Florida, Sunshine State
Generic synonyms: River

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Johns

Saint Helenian
Saint Helenians
Saint Helier
Saint Ignatius
Saint Ignatius' itch
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint James
Saint James the Apostle
Saint Jerome
Saint Joan
Saint John
Saint John's
Saint John's bread
Saint John River
Saint John the Apostle
Saint Johns (current term)
Saint Johns River
Saint Joseph
Saint Jude
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence Seaway
Saint Louis
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucian
Saint Lucian Creole French
Saint Lucians
Saint Luke

Literary usage of Saint Johns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Michigan by Charles Moore (1915)
"After his graduation from the Saint Johns High School, in 1894, Charles Henry ... While clerking he was employed in Saint Johns, Otsego and Charlotte before ..."

2. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"Saint Johns; village in Clinton County, Michigan, named for John Swegles. ... Saint John the Baptist; parish in Louisiana, named from the Saint Johns River. ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"Saint Johns, county of Canada, XIV. 536. SAINT JOHN'S, city of Newfoundland, XIV. 686. Saint Johns, town of Canada, XIV. 537. ... Saint Johns college: see ..."

4. A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of by Daniel Haskel, John Calvin Smith (1843)
"Saint Johns, county. Flor. Situated in the к. part of the peninsula, ... Saint Johns, po., Allen county, O., 95 N. w. Columbus, 480 W. Saint Johns, po., ..."

5. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"... AD I583- S/r Humfrey Gilbert did arrive at Saint Johns Haven in Newfound land, the 3. oj August. Anno 1583. Among these there vías found the tract of a ..."

6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Saint Johns. A village and the county- seat of Clinton County, Mich., ... It has the Saint Johns- bury Academy, Fairbanks Museum, an art gallery, ..."

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