Absalom
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) the third and favorite son of David, who rebelled against his father and was slain by Joab.
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a first name: from a Hebrew word meaning “father of peace.”
noun
Example Sentences
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Mr Absalom said family members haven't been told what items police were examining and the true scope of the review.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
In the 1950s and ’60s, a literary-minded cat named Dr. Absalom Minola — writing via his “butler,” future UC Berkeley archivist Jim Kantor — began sending letters to authors, editors and public figures.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
But there wasn’t much talk about abolitionism, or Forten’s old friends, like Absalom Jones, founder of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, or William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator newspaper.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022
There, while reading Latin and cleaning out the chicken coop, Harrison finally finds someone he can truly respect: a fellow student named Eli Absalom Stone.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2022
As for Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the hundreds of other blacks who nursed the city’s sick, they suffered an even worse indignity.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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