st. lawrence

Questions about st. lawrence

What does st. lawrence mean?

st. 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 st. lawrence?

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

st. lawrence 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.