Mary vs Joseph - What's the difference?
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* 1821 Lord Byron, Don Juan : Canto the Fifth: IV:
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names :
* 1905 , Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway , Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)
The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
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The 19th sura (chapter) of the Quran
Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha.
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(Ireland, dated) A middle name for a male, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.
(biblical) Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
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* 1913 ,
The husband of Virgin Mary.
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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:
As nouns the difference between mary and joseph
is that mary is (gay slang|chiefly|us) a male homosexual while joseph is (sometimes capitalised) a woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.mary
English
(wikipedia Mary)Proper noun
(Marys)- I have a passion for the name of Mary , / For once it was a magic sound to me: / And still it half calls up the realm of fairy / Where I beheld what never was to be.
- Mary , which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
- For it was Mary'; '''Mary''' / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was '''Mary'''; ' Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.
- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
- Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Usage notes
* The given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.Derived terms
* Marian * Bloody Mary * Mary Ann * Mary JaneCoordinate terms
* AminaAnagrams
* * ----joseph
English
(wikipedia Joseph)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
- 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 .
- 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.
- 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.