John

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A prostitute's client.

   “The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.”

2. isim A device or place for urination and defecation: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
3. isim A Western man traveling in East Asia.
4. isim A male mule.
5. özel isim A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.

   “The vote was 54-46. The vote was mostly along party lines though Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in supporting Bondi.”

6. özel isim Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known.

   “a John Doe murder case; the dreaded Dear John letter; if we were to ask John Q. Public his opinion”

7. özel isim Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).
8. özel isim Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).

   “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”

9. özel isim The Gospel of St John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.
10. özel isim One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).
11. özel isim A surname originating as a patronymic.
12. isim A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

    “I and the other "Johns," as I soon discovered all new-comers at Sandhurst were, and are still, styled, although at the time I was unconscious of it, managed to troop in after the A company, but although not two minutes after them, found all the different messes already seated and hard at work.”

13. isim Alternative letter-case form of john (“a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, chamber pot”).
14. isim An excuse, chiefly made by a losing player for their poor performance.

    “Remember, no Johns.”