St. Thomas

American  

noun

1. an island in the Virgin Islands of the U.S., in the E West Indies. 32 sq. mi. (83 sq. km).

2. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.

3. former name of Charlotte Amalie.

4. São Tomé.

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Following a second, similar incident, Upp moves to the Caribbean island of St. Thomas to teach at a Montessori school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

"St. Thomas," which appeared on "Saxophone Colossus" and became his best-known song, incorporated Caribbean calypso that he had heard as a child.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

The collaboration also included researchers from Tulane University, the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of St. Thomas, and scientific partners in France.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026

Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Twenty percent of Kerala’s population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy