Definitions for Boanerges

Boanerges Bo·a·ner·ges

Spelling: [boh-uh-nur-jeez]
IPA: /ˌboʊ əˈnɜr dʒiz/

Boanerges is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 578 anagrams from letters in Boanerges (abeegnors).

Definitions for Boanerges

noun

  1. a surname given by Jesus to James and John. Mark 3:17.
  2. (used with a singular verb) a vociferous preacher or orator.

Origin of Boanerges

Late Latin Greek Boanergés ≪ Hebrew bənē reghesh sons of thunder

Examples for Boanerges

A dog-cart by Adams and a thoroughbred like Boanerges were, after all, worth a glance at.

He is now a Boanerges—a son of thunder—and he begins with Jove.

Leigh Hunt called him, with much truth, "the Boanerges of the Temple."

Situation largely due to Boanerges Russell, one of few men who understand Bill.

Miss Corelli tells hers with the voice and manner of a Boanerges.

And the urbane ease and flowing rhythms of Thackeray are preferable to the baphometic verbal baptisms of Carlyle the Boanerges.

Boanerges, not Balzac, now occupies the pasteboard pulpit of fiction.

And Boanerges himself could hardly have held a candle to him in this way.

Boanerges, bo-an-erj′es, n. a noisy preacher or shouting orator.

But I rather prefer, myself, the Boanerges, the two sons of Zebedee.

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