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Joseph vs Mommy - What's the difference?

joseph | mommy |

As proper nouns the difference between joseph and mommy

is that joseph is eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel while Mommy is one's mother.

As nouns the difference between joseph and mommy

is that joseph is a woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front while mommy is mother.

joseph

English

(wikipedia Joseph)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (biblical) Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
  • * :
  • Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
  • * 1913 ,
  • A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph .
  • The husband of Virgin Mary.
  • * :
  • And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph , which was the son of Heli.
  • The 12th sura (chapter) of the Quran
  • (Christianity) (Joseph of Arimathea); man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.
  • , popular as a middle name.
  • * 1998 (Steven Herrick), A Place Like This , Univ. of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702229849, page 86:
  • I'm going to call him Joseph' / or Josephine if it's a girl. / Why? / Because it's a strong name, / Joe, ' Joseph . / You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. / - - - So Joe it is. / He'll turn out strong. Strong and smart.

    See also

    * * (Saint Joseph) * (Joseph of Arimathea) English terms derived from the Bible ----

    mommy

    English

    Noun

    (mommies)
  • (US, Canada, usually, childish) Mother.
  • Synonyms

    * ma, mama, mamma, mom (qualifier), momma (US), mum (British), mummy (British)