st. basil the great

Questions about st. basil the great

What does st. basil the great mean?

st. basil the great means "(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)".

What is another word for st. basil the great?

Close synonyms include Basil, St. Basil, Basil of Caesarea, Basil the Great. 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 st. basil the great a common word?

st. basil the great 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.