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joseph
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun joseph has 3 senses
- joseph(n = noun.person) chief joseph - leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904); Array is a kind of nez perce, indian chief, indian chieftain
- joseph(n = noun.person) Array - (Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel; Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, which made his brothers jealous and they sold him into slavery in Egypt; Array is a kind of patriarch
- joseph(n = noun.person) Array - (New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus; Array is a kind of carpenter
CIDE DICTIONARY
joseph, n.
An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
joseph
Purity
N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.
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