james
IPA: dʒˈeɪmz
Root Word: James
noun
- (biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
- One of two Apostles, James the Greater and James the Less, often identified with James, brother of Jesus.
- A male given name from Hebrew popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
- An English surname originating as a patronymic.
- A placename
- An unincorporated community in Jones County, Georgia, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States.
- A township in Timiskaming District, north-eastern Ontario, Canada.
- Former name of Santiago, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
Advertisement
Examples of "james" in Sentences
- James Dobson wakes up apoplectic.
- James is known to reveler everyday.
- James did not want to anethetize the pig.
- James Oliver was the inventor of the plow.
- The reference occurs in the Epistle of James.
- He was a cousin of the regicide, James Temple.
- Elegy on the death of James Jenkin of Alverton.
- Conciliation was the keynote of James I's policy.
- James was built in 1761 in the heyday of the town.
- But James was not a slavish follower of Swedenborg.