Lois vs Peter - What's the difference?
lois | peter |
The grandmother of Timothy who is mentioned in an epistle to him.
* : 2 Timothy 1: 5 :
of biblical origin.
* 1962 V.S.Naipaul: ''The Middle Passage: p.48:
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* 1911 , Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993, Chapter I
* 1933 , Over the Garden Wall ,Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
The leading Apostle in the New Testament.
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(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, attributed to St. Peter.
As a proper noun lois
is lois (female name).As a noun peter is
(hypocoristic slang ) the penis.As a verb peter is
(most often used in the phrase peter out) to dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.lois
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois , and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
- Modernity might also lie in a name like Lois' - pronounced Loys in Trinidad - which came to the island in the 1940s through '''Lois Lane, the heroine of the American ''Superman comic strip.
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*peter
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of Peter)- She knew of no Peter , and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,
- And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter , and upon this rock I will build my church;