lazarus
IPA: ɫˈæzɝʌs
Root Word: Lazarus
noun
- (biblical) Lazarus of Bethany, a man supposedly raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later (Christianity) revered as a saint.
- (biblical) A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) believed to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.
- (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
- (usually figurative) A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected.
- A poor person, a beggar.
verb
- (African-American Vernacular) To rescue a dying person.
- (African-American Vernacular) To raise from the dead.
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Examples of "lazarus" in Sentences
- Lazarus is from a different time.
- Lazarus closed this anchor in 1997.
- I'm just looking at the Lazarus paper.
- Lazarus was married and had a daughter.
- Then there is the Lazarus in the parable.
- These are the opposing forces in LAZARUS.
- Regardless, hope Lazarus make a go of it.
- An influential theory here is that of Lazarus.
- I will be reverting back the inclusion of Lazarus.
- October 23rd, 2008 6:27 pm ET lazarus stand and walk
- Lazarus is the Dragonian guardian of the priestess Ryuna.
- Follow Catie Lazarus on Twitter: www. twitter.com/catie lazarus
- A different ideology and constellation of functions were evident in the emma lazarus clubs.
- When I was a kid (back in the 60's and 70's) my dad had a "lazarus" store credit card that was metal.
- We should get away from this “micropayment” label as everything goes digital – the media is still trying to resurrect “micro” – looking for the lazarus man.
- For children and adults she wrote biographies of women and men whom she saw as models: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1952), emma lazarus (1956, 1959), and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- October 11, 2008 at 1:53 am nope, and I do…not…wake-up well as a rule, especially by someone or something other than an alarm. something akin to lazarus with a hangover and near terminal bed-hed, well….load blanket-hed in this case.
- Take for instance The Riddler has cancer and is connected to the lazarus Pitts of Raz, which in turn would bring about the character Hushi could see Hush as a minor villian in the moviessomeone that the Riddler can use to his purpose.
- Taila's last name is Head not Al Ghoul. and instead of lazarus pit right before the train crashed Ra's closed his eyes how about he transfered his spirit? like Ken Wantabe was the real Ra's until he died in the temple fire and transfered his spirit to Ducard?
- She was born on October 20, 1862, into a distinguished old New York Sephardic family (she had relatives who fought in the American Revolution; one of her cousins was Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo; and another cousin was the poet emma lazarus) and had a privileged childhood.