Definition of St. George

1. Noun. Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303).

Exact synonyms: George, Saint George
Generic synonyms: Martyr, Patron Saint

Lexicographical Neighbors of St. George

St. Crispin
St. Dabeoc's heath
St. David
St. Denis
St. Dominic
St. Edward the Confessor
St. Edward the Martyr
St. Elias Mountains
St. Elias Range
St. Elmo's fire
St. Elmo's fires
St. Eustatius
St. Francis
St. Francis River
St. George (current term)
St. George's
St. George's Cross
St. George's Day
St. Gregory I
St. Gregory of Nazianzen
St. Ignatius
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. James
St. James the Apostle
St. Jerome
St. John
St. John's
St. John Chrysostom
St. John River

Literary usage of St. George

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

1. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1866)
"... St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France; Sing, Honi soil qui mal y pense. St. David of Wales the Welsh-men much advance: St. Jaques of ..."

2. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"Touring St. George's Parish St. George is a 30-minute bus ride from ... A Walking Tour of St. George The heart of the parish is the town of St. George. ..."

3. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1844)
"St. George he was for England ; St. Dennis was for France ; Sing, Honi toil qui mal y pense. St. David of Wales the Welsh-men much advance : St. Jaques of ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"See an Historical and cc«l«, I think, in tracing the worship of Critical Inquiry into the Existence and St. George up to a period which makes ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This, however, by no means implies that the martyr St. George never existed. ... Such we have in the case of St. George. The narratives of the early ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"From her, in January 1796, he was moved into the St. George, which he still commanded on 18 Jan. 1797, when, as the fleet wus leaving Lisbon, ..."

7. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"St. George of Cappadocia, the patron saint of England, was, according to the legend, ... St. George suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian. ..."

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