jeremiah
English
(Book of Jeremiah)
Alternative forms
* (abbreviations of the name of the book of the Bible)
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
(Abrahamic religions) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.
(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
of biblical origin.
Quotations
* :
*: And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
* 2000 , David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader . Cork University Press. ISBN 1859182585, page 8:
*: The man whom you call Diarmaid when you speak Irish, a low, pernicious, un-Irish, detestable custom, begot by slavery, and propagated by cringing, and fostered by flunkeyism, forces you to call Jeremiah when you speak English, or as a concession, Darby.
Related terms
* (l), (l)
Noun
(
en noun)
A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.
Derived terms
* jeremiad
Related terms
* Jeremias
* Jeremy
* Jerry
See also
* (l)
Interjection
(
en interjection)
(UK) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.
Not English
has no English definition. It may be misspelled. 