Saviour
noun
Christianity Jesus Christ regarded as the saviour of men from sin
Saviour
1 British
/ ˈseɪvjə /
noun
saviour
2
British
/ ˈseɪvjə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of saviour
C13 saveour, from Old French, from Church Latin Salvātor the Saviour; see save 1
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Saviour Iwezue traces her environmental awakening to when she was nine years old.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
"This heat is very serious and it's really affecting our work," Wadcon Saviour Lazarus, who runs a national NGO, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Saviour Kasukuwere has promised to return to Zimbabwe to campaign but authorities say he faces arrest for alleged past crimes.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2023
For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"The difference with Adam knowing what he was doing is that my son didn't lose his dad as a 12-year-old," he said, calling his saviour an "absolute hero, a legend".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Cox was done in the flight to be leg before, Overton was caught at long-on and Will Jacks, so often England's saviour in white-ball cricket, found the hands of mid-wicket.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Manchester City "has not only just been a football club for the area. It's a bit of a saviour, to be honest," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
But can he pull off the far bigger task ahead, and really be the "saviour" that Labour craves?
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
As a consequence, I must sometimes appear at public functions where I am lauded as a saviour of the public health.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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