st. john's

Questions about st. john's

What does st. john's mean?

st. john's means "a port and provincial capital of Newfoundland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for st. john's?

Close synonyms include Saint John's, Saint John's, capital of Antigua and Barbuda. 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. john's a common word?

st. john's is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.