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Evangel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The Christian gospel.

n. An evangelist.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The Christian gospel

n. An evangelist

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The gospel, or one of the Gospels.

n. Good tidings.

n. A messenger or bearer of good tidings; an evangelist.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings

Word Usage

"This closely corresponds to the Christian term, which, as derived from the Greek, reads "evangel" and in its Saxon equivalent "gospel" or "good tidings.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

religious writing religious text sacred text sacred writing

Hyponym

gospel according to john john Matthew Luke mark gospel of luke gospel according to luke gospel according to matthew word of god gospel according to mark

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

gospel

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