john
- Proper noun. (given name, male) very popular since the Middle Ages.
- Proper noun. (biblical) Two persons of great importance to early Christianity: John the Baptist and John the Apostle, identified with John the Evangelist.
- Proper noun. (biblical) The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.
- Proper noun. (biblical) One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).
- Proper noun. (surname, patronymic) .
- Proper noun. (informal) Used frequently to form an idea personified John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).
- Proper noun. (informal) A name used to address a man whose actual name is not known: John Doe.
- Noun. (slang) A prostitute's client.
- Noun. (slang, US) A lavatory, toilet.
- Noun. (slang) An outhouse privy. Also johnny house.
- Noun. (slang) A name often used as a generic reference to a male of European, North-American, or Australian origin, while travelling in East Asia.
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