Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who rescues another from harm, danger, or loss.
- noun Christianity Jesus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who saves, rescues, delivers, or redeems from danger, death, or destruction; a deliverer; a redeemer.
- noun Specifically [capitalized] One of the appellations given to God or to Jesus Christ as the one who saves from the power and penalty of sin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
- noun Specifically:
The (orour ,your , etc.)Savior , he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
rescues another fromharm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)
- noun a person who rescues you from harm or danger
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Kinda throws a wrench in her gears if her savior is a smoker.
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This is what I call a savior dish for quick weekday dinners!
MW Vegetable Tahiri Meera 2008
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For the San Francisco Giants and their faithful, the savior is arriving at the 11th hour.
USATODAY.com - Now's the time to enjoy Barry Bonds as a ballplayer 2005
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Pope St. Leo, speaking of the same event, the same fact, says that a "savior" is born to us.
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Pope St. Leo, speaking of the same event, the same fact, says that a "savior" is born to us.
CHRISTMAS, 2008 2008
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THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT:::: Maintaining the perception of "savior" is CRUCIAL to their positioning.
Why Does It Have to Require So Much Thought? | Her Bad Mother 2008
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Your savior is proposing measures that goes against all you think is holy.
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Your savior is proposing measures that goes against all you think is holy.
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Your liberal savior is implementing the very same policies as Hitler and Stalin and that is historcally accurate.
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Perfect evidence rite there, your '' savior is blowing his life rite now so keep insulting the republicans, we'll see who's in office in 2012..
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Savior swarming: An overwhelming flow of concentrated collective action, motivated by an uninformed desire to help, escalated by algorithmically-mediated communications.
When Kindness Kills William R. Frey 2024
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