Sebastian

American  

[si-bas-chuhn] / sɪˈbæs tʃən /

noun

1. Saint, died a.d. 288?, Roman martyr.

2. a male given name.

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Sebastian British  

/ sɪˈbæstjən /

noun

1. Saint. died ?288 _ad , Christian martyr. According to tradition, he was first shot with arrows and then beaten to death. Feast day: Jan 20

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Sebastian

"In hydrodynamic cavitation, we pass PFAS-enriched water through a constriction, generating small vapor bubbles," explains Dr. Sebastian Reinecke, head of the Department of Water and Environmental Technologies at HZDR.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

But when the high-school band director googled the man behind the $10 billion proposal—a land-use lawyer named Sebastian Rucci—he was perplexed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Two boys, Atlas and Sebastian Carbajal, were listed on the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Rights groups identified the victim in Monday's shooting in Biddeford, Maine as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, a delivery driver authorized to work in the United States, who lived with his wife and three-year-old daughter.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

There were only two trains up from San Sebastian, an early morning train and the one we had just met.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway