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Definition of Saint Joseph

1. Noun. A Christian holy day.

2. Noun. A town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Joseph

Saint Helier Saint Ignatius Saint Ignatius' itch Saint Ignatius of Loyola Saint James Saint James the Apostle Saint Jerome Saint Joan Saint John Saint John's

Saint John's bread Saint John River Saint John the Apostle Saint Johns Saint Johns River Saint Joseph (current term) Saint Jude Saint Kitts Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence Seaway Saint Louis Saint Lucia Saint Lucian Saint Lucian Creole French Saint Lucians Saint Luke Saint Maarten Saint Mark

Literary usage of Saint Joseph

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"First settled in 1829, Saint Joseph was incorporated as a village in ... Saint Joseph. The third city of Missouri and the county-seat of Buchanan County, ..."

2. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1921)
"Said Saint Joseph Superior Court, Number Two, shall have original, appellate and concurrent jurisdiction with the Saint Joseph Circuit Court, in all eases, ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Saint Joseph. I. A N. county of Indiana, bordering on Michigan, drained by the St. ... Saint Joseph, a city and the county scat of Buchanan со., Missouri, ..."

4. Report on Canadian Archives by Public Archives of Canada, Douglas Brymner, George F. O'Halloran (1885)
"SAINT-JOSEPH—District of Beauce—(Two leagues of frontage in the fief.) Vol. III., p. ... (For prior titles, see SAINT-JOSEPH ou L'ESPINAY, Vol. II., p. 375. ..."

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