saint

1. 1.

   hold sacred

   Synonymsenshrine

   Broaderreverence
2. 2.

   declare (a dead person) to be a saint

   “After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized”

   Synonymscanonizecanonise

   Broaderdeclare

   religion

Other forms of saint

plural

saints·

past tense

sainted·

present participle

sainting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about saint

What does saint mean?

saint means "a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saint?

saint has 1 syllable: saint. In IPA it is /ˈseɪnt/.

What is another word for saint?

Close synonyms include holy man, holy person, angel, ideal, paragon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saint a common word?

saint is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.