xavier, st

Xa·vi·er

[zey-vee-er, zav-ee-, zey-vyer]
noun
1.
Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
2.
a male given name: from an Arabic word meaning “bright.”

Xa·ve·ri·an [zey-veer-ee-uhn, za-] , adjective
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Xavier (ˈzeɪvɪə, ˈzæv-, Spanish xaˈβjɛr) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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Saint Francis, known as the Apostle of the Indies. 1506-- 52, Spanish missionary, who was a founding member of the Jesuit society (1534) and later preached in Goa, Ceylon, the East Indies, and Japan. Feast day: Dec 3

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Xavier, st is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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