saint lawrence

1. 1.

   Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)

   SynonymsLawrenceSt. LawrenceLaurentius

   Broadermartyrsaint

   Christianity

2. 2.

   a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic

   SynonymsSaint Lawrence RiverSt. LawrenceSt. Lawrence River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofUnited StatesCanada

Questions about saint lawrence

What does saint lawrence mean?

saint lawrence means "Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for saint lawrence?

Close synonyms include Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius, Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence. 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 lawrence a common word?

saint lawrence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.