bede

n. family name; Saint Bede (672-735), English monk who was a theologian and historian known as "the Venerable Bede" (he introduced the method of dating history from the birth of Christ)

n. type of pickax used in mining

Bede (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda ), (c. 672 or 673 – May 25, 735), was a Benedictine monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both in the English county of Durham (now Tyne and Wear). He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) gained him the title "The father of English history".
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Noun
1. (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
(synonym) Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede
(hypernym) theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser
(classification) Roman Catholic, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome, Roman Church

n. Saint Bede (672-735), English monk who was a theologian and historian, known as "the Venerable Bede"

abbr. for a comic book, comics

comic strip

n. prayer; plea, appeal, petition