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paul | anthony |

As a noun paul

is an old italian silver coin; a paolo or paul can be .

As a proper noun anthony is

, in regular use since the middle ages.

paul

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • In the New Testament, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
  • * : Acts 9:4 :
  • Then Saul, ( who is also called Paul ,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him
  • of biblical origin.
  • * 1848 (Charles Dickens), :
  • 'He will be christened Paul , my - Mrs Dombey - of course.'
    She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.
    'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'
  • A city in Idaho.
  • Derived terms

    * rob Peter to pay Paul * Saint Paul * Pauline

    Anagrams

    * ----

    anthony

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Antony

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , in regular use since the Middle Ages.
  • * 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
  • "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
  • * 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
  • It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
  • * 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
  • She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"
  • A city in Kansas
  • A city in New Mexico
  • A town in Texas