Christopher

Definitions

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Equivalents

Examples

“Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly's son, of Burtonheath; by birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present⟳ profession a tinker?”

“- - - a baby, which also happened to fall⟳ due, was baptized "Paul" ( for the church ) "Christopher" ( because St. Christopher had to do with rivers and ferries ), the Rector strenuously resisting the parents' desire to call⟳ it "Van Weyden Flood⟳".”

“A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work⟳ of Christopher F. Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation.”

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