ST. JOSEPH
Dictionary entry overview: What does St. Joseph mean?
• ST. JOSEPH (noun)
The noun ST. JOSEPH has 2 senses:
1. a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
2. the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer and Empirin) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets
Familiarity information: ST. JOSEPH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ST. JOSEPH (noun)
Meaning:
A town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
St. Joseph; Saint Joseph
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("St. Joseph" is a part of...):
Missouri; MO; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)
Meaning:
The acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer and Empirin) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
acetylsalicylic acid; aspirin; Bayer; Empirin; St. Joseph
Hypernyms ("St. Joseph" is a kind of...):
analgesic; anodyne; pain pill; painkiller (a medicine used to relieve pain)
salicylate (a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs))
Meronyms (substance of "St. Joseph"):
2-hydroxybenzoic acid; salicylic acid (a white crystalline substance with a bitter aftertaste; used as a fungicide or in making aspirin or dyes or perfumes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "St. Joseph"):
aspirin powder; headache powder (a powdered form of aspirin)
buffered aspirin; Bufferin (aspirin coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (trade name Bufferin))
enteric-coated aspirin (aspirin that is treated to pass through the stomach unaltered and to dissolve in the intestines)
Domain usage:
trade name (a name given to a product or service)
trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)
