James
pronunciation
How to pronounce James in British English:
UK [dʒeimz]
How to pronounce James in American English:
US [dʒemz]
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- Noun:
- United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
- United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)
- writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
- (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
- a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads
- a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri
- a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle
Word Origin
- James
- masc. proper name, name of two of Christ's disciples, late 12c. Middle English vernacular form of Late Latin Jacomus (source of Old French James, Spanish Jaime, Italian Giacomo), altered from Latin Jacobus (see Jacob). The Welsh form was Iago, the Cornish Jago. Fictional British spy James Bond dates from 1953, created by British author Ian Fleming (1908-1964), who plausibly is said to have taken the name from that of U.S. ornithologist James Bond (1900-1989), an expert on Caribbean birds.
Example
- 1. Responsibility lies with the team headed by james murdoch .
- 2. Consider james 1:13-15 , which leaves us with no way of escaping our own sin and guilt .
- 3. We know about james hewitt .
- 4. I know who james is .
- 5. I lapped up james 's armchair philosophy .