Saint

See also: saint and SA Int

English

Etymology

From saint

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seɪnt/
  • compound names in RP : IPA^(key): /sənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪnt

Noun

Saint (plural Saints)

1. A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.

   "Saint Stephen was the first martyr."

2. (sports) someone connected with any of the sports teams known as the Saints, as a fan, player, coach etc.
3. (UK, rail transport) Saint class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR.

Synonyms

• (title): St, St., SS, SS.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Saint-John
• Saint Kitts

• Saint Lucia
• Saint Petersburg

Translations

title given to a saint

• Aragonese: Sant m
• Asturian: San m, Santa f
• Catalan: Sant (ca) m, Santa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖／圣 (zh) (shèng), 圣 (zh) (shèng)

• Czech: Svatý m, Svatá m
• Danish: Sankt
• Dutch: Sint
• Finnish: Pyhä (fi)
• French: Saint m
• Galician: San m, Santa f
• German: Sankt (de) n
• Hungarian: szent (hu)
• Irish: San m or f, Naomh m or f
• Italian: San, Santo (it) m, Santa f
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• Japanese: 聖 (ja) (せい, sei), セイント (seinto)
• Khmer: សន្ត (sɑnta’)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sünn (nds) n

• Polish: Święty m, Święta (pl) f
• Portuguese: São m, Santo (pt) m, Santa (pt) f
• Romanian: Sfântul m, Sfânta f
• Russian: свято́й (ru) (svjatój)
• Scottish Gaelic: Naomh m
• Serbo-Croatian: Sveti (sh) m
• Sinhalese: ශුද්ධවූ (śuddhawū)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: swěty m, swěta f

• Spanish: San m, Santa f
• Swedish: Sankt (sv) m, Sankta (sv) f

Anagrams

• Astin, Insta, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, sat in, satin, stain, stian, tians, tisan