Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: luke
IPA transcription: [l'uk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Luke, Gospel_of_Luke, Gospel_According_to_Luke
    Meaning: one of the four Gospels in the New Testament; contains details of Jesus's birth and early life
  • Synonyms: Luke, Saint_Luke, St._Luke
    Meaning: (New Testament) the Apostle closely associated with St. Paul and traditionally assumed to be the author of the third Gospel
Usage examples
  • Luke.
  • "Call him Luke, mamma."
  • She had taken a side against Luke Rowan, and could not restrain herself from ill-natured words.
  • As for her living, I don't know what will be best about that, because Luke says that of course you'll come and live with us."
  • But the writings of St. Luke are as full of blessing and power as ever, and the war he wrote about grows more wonderful every day.
  • The Apostle Peter, in contrast to St. Luke, was only a fisherman when the Lord bade him leave his boat and his nets to preach and teach the Gospel.
  • Twenty years after Matthew's Gospel was written, God called a Greek scholar, named Luke, to write what was to be a most important part of our Bible.
  • In answer to this Luke protested that he had not thought of Rachel when he was making that speech, and tried to explain that all that was "soft sawder" as he called it, for the election.
  • After that Rachel insisted upon going, and the mother and daughter returned across the green, leaving Luke at the farm-house, ready to take his departure as soon as Mrs. Ray and Rachel should have safely reached their home.
  • She felt all but sure that some tidings of Luke Rowan had been brought in Mrs. Sturt's budget of news, and she had never been able to think well of Luke Rowan since the evening on which she had seen him standing with Rachel in the churchyard.