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Paul (pôl)

noun

a masculine name: equiv. L. Paulus, It. Paolo, Paulo, Sp. Pablo: fem. Paula, Pauline

Etymology: L Paulus (or Gr Paulos), Rom. surname, prob. < paulus, small: akin to paucus, few

Paul2 definition

Paul (pôl)

  1. (original name Saul) (died 67?); a Jew of Tarsus who became the Apostle of Christianity to the Gentiles: author of several Letters in the New Testament: his day is June 29
    also Saint Paul
  2. 1754-1801: czar of Russia (1796-1801): son of Catherine II & Peter III
  3. (born Alessandro Farnese) 1468-1549; pope (1534-49)
  4. (born Giovanni Battista Montini) 1897-1978; pope (1963-78)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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