John Dory Zeus faber | European dory |
Commodore John Barry Bridge | a cantilever bridge in Chester, Pennsylvania |
toilet lavatory lav can john privy bathroom | a room or building equipped with one or more toilets |
autograph John Hancock | a person's own signature |
John Gospel According to John | the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament |
First Epistle of John I John | the first New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle |
Second Epistel of John II John | the second New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle |
Third Epistel of John III John | the third New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle |
Revelation Revelation of Saint John the Divine Apocalypse Book of Revelation | the last book of the New Testament, contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world, attributed to Saint John the Apostle |
carob carob powder Saint-John's-bread | powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree, used as a chocolate substitute |
liquor spirits booze hard drink hard liquor John Barleycorn strong drink | an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented |
St. John's Saint John's capital of Antigua and Barbuda | the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, located on the island of Antigua |
Saint John St. John | a port in eastern Canada, the largest city in New Brunswick |
Saint John's St. John's | a port and provincial capital of Newfoundland |
Saint John Saint John River St. John St. John River | a river that rises in Maine and flows northeastward through New Brunswick to empty into the Bay of Fundy |
John Henry | hero of American folk tales, portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill |
Falstaff Sir John Falstaff | a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays |
limey John Bull | a man of English descent |
John Doe | an unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings |
John Doe Joe Blow Joe Bloggs man in the street | a hypothetical average man |
Little John | legendary follower of Robin Hood, noted for his size and strength |
whoremaster whoremonger john trick | a prostitute's customer |
Adams John Adams President Adams President John Adams | nd President of the United States (-) |
Adams John Quincy Adams President Adams President John Quincy Adams | th President of the United States, son of John Adams (-) |
Astor John Jacob Astor | United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (-) |
Audubon John James Audubon | United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (-) |
Bardeen John Bardeen | United States physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics twice (-) |
Barrymore John Barrymore | United States actor, son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (-) |
Barth John Barth John Simmons Barth | United States novelist (born in ) |
Bartlett John Bartlett | United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (-) |
Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli Jean Bernoulli John Bernoulli | Swiss mathematician (-) |
Booth John Wilkes Booth | United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (-) |
Brown John Brown | abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (-) |
Browning John M. Browning John Moses Browning | United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (-) |
Budge Don Budge John Donald Budge | United States tennis player who in was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (-) |
Bunyan John Bunyan | English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (-) |
Burgoyne John Burgoyne Gentleman Johnny | British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in (-) |
Cabot John Cabot Giovanni Cabato | Italian explorer who led the English expedition in that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. -) |
Cage John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. | United States composer of avant-garde music (-) |
Calvin John Calvin Jean Cauvin Jean Caulvin Jean Chauvin | Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (-) |
Carrere John Merven Carrere | United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (-) |
Cash Johnny Cash John Cash | United States country music singer and songwriter (-) |
Chapman John Chapman Johnny Appleseed | United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (-) |
Cheever John Cheever | United States writer of novels and short stories (-) |
Churchill John Churchill Duke of Marlborough First Duke of Marlborough | English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (-) |
Ciardi John Ciardi John Anthony Ciardi | United States poet and critic (-) |
Cockcroft Sir John Cockcroft Sir John Douglas Cockcroft | British physicist who (with Ernest Walton in ) first split an atom (-) |
Comenius John Amos Comenius Jan Amos Komensky | Czech educational reformer (-) |
Constable John Constable | English landscape painter (-) |
Copley John Copley John Singleton Copley | American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (-) |