John

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A male given name from Hebrew; very popular since the Middle Ages.
• Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).
• The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.
• One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).

Noun

• A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
• Alternate spelling of john: a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, or chamber pot.

Related

Similar words

• sir
• boy , bro , gov or guv , guvnor , Mac , man , mate , mister, son , buddy

Origin

• From Middle English John, Johan, Johannes, from Anglo-Norman Jehan, Johan, and also Old English Iohannes, both from Latin Iōhannēs (variant of Iōannēs), from New Testament Greek Ἰωάννης, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן, perhaps contracted from a former יְהוֹחָנָן. Giovanni, Ian, Ivan, and Juan.