saviour
pronunciation
How to pronounce saviour in British English:
UK [ˈseɪvjə(r)]
How to pronounce saviour in American English:
US [ˈsevjɚ]
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- Noun:
- a person who rescues you from harm or danger
Word Origin
- saviour
- saviour: see save
- saviour (n.)
- chiefly British English spelling of savior (q.v.); for suffix, see -or.
Example
- 1. It 's gone from regarding mainlanders as country bumpkins to its saviour .
- 2. To blue-collar workers , he is the saviour of the car industry .
- 3. Don 't tell me that you are the distinguished saviour , not the sly ill-wisher .
- 4. He delighted pensioners with handouts and rebuilt the gold-domed christ the saviour cathedral , destroyed by stalin .
- 5. We rarely hear about them , because they fundamentally challenge a world view that regards the market as solution and saviour .