Lazarus

  1. Proper noun.  (context, New Testament) A man, the brother of Mary and Martha, brought back to life by Jesus after being in the tomb for four days.
  2. Proper noun.  (context, New Testament) A beggar in a parable told by Jesus Christ.
  3. Proper noun.  (rare) (given name, male) .
  4. Verb.  To rescue a dying person.
  5. Verb.  To raise from the dead.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.