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Definition of St. martin
1. Noun. French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397).
2. Noun. An island in the western Leeward Islands; administered jointly by France and the Netherlands.
Group relationships: Leeward Islands
Generic synonyms: Island
Lexicographical Neighbors of St. Martin
Literary usage of St. martin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"st. martin. Patron of drunkards, to вате them from falling into danger This fa
... When Bacchus was merged by Christians Into st. martin, st. martin had to ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Simon de Brion, pope from 1281 to 1285 under the name of Martin IV, was canon
and treasurer of the church of st. martin of Tours. The prestige of the Church ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Heraclea Erkelens, in the district of Juliers. -M. st. martin, ii., 311. ... St.
Martin has likewise clearly shown (st. martin, Add. to Le Beau, i., 291), ..."
4. Paris and Environs with Routes from London to Paris: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"R 26,27), running above the Canal st. martin, which is vaulted over for a distance
of nearly l'/4 M., and is lighted by means ..."
5. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"At the south corner of Royall street is the fair parish church of st. martin called
in the ... sometime called st. martin de ..."
6. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"Its choir was begun in 1220 and it was not completed until the close 450— Nave
of st. martin, Ypres. (From Michel.) of the fifteenth century. ..."
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