Crossword clues for savior
savior
- Conquering hero
- Delivery person?
- Hero
- Redeemer
- A prophet of the first century
- To Christians he was both God and man--the Messiah sent to save the human race from the sin it inherited through the Fall of Man (circa 8 BC 29 AD)
- A person who rescues you from harm or danger
- Rescuer
- Deliverer from danger
- Knight in shining armor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Savior \Sav"ior\ (s[=a]v"y[~e]r), n. [OE. saveour, OF. salveor, F. sauveur, fr. L. salvator, fr. salvare to save. See Save, v.] [Written also saviour.]
One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "one who delivers or rescues from peril," also a title of Jesus Christ, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvatorem (nominative salvator) "a saver, preserver" (source also of Spanish salvador, Italian salvatore), from salvatus, past participle of salvare "to save" (see save (v.)). In Christian sense, a translation of Greek soter "savior." Replaced Old English hælend, literally "healing," noun use of present participle of hælan (see heal).
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A person who rescue another from harm.
Wikipedia
Savior is a 1998 war film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård, Nastassja Kinski, and Nataša Ninković. It is about an American mercenary escorting a Serbian woman and her newborn child to a United Nations safe zone during the Bosnian War.
Savior or Saviour may refer to:
- a person who helps people achieve salvation, or saves them from something
"Savior" is a song by American rock band Rise Against, featured on their fifth studio album Appeal to Reason (2008). Written and performed by the band, the song deviates from the social and political topics normally discussed in Rise Against songs, and is instead about forgiveness and broken relationships. It is a punk rock song, with a "frenetic pace" that John Hanson of Sputnikmusic described as reminiscent of tracks from the band's 2003 album Revolutions per Minute. It was released as Appeal to Reason third single on June 3, 2009.
"Savior" was well received by critics, with praise directed towards its lyrics, and remains one of the band's most commercially successful singles to date. It peaked at number three on both the Hot Rock Songs and Alternative Songs music charts, and holds the record for the most consecutive weeks spent on either chart, with sixty-three and sixty-five weeks respectively. The accompanying music video depicts actors in animal costumes engaging in a mosh pit.
Savior is the third single from the Christian rock band Skillet's sixth studio album, Collide. It has been to date the band's fifth highest mainstream rock Billboard charting single, peaking at No. 26. It's also the first Skillet single to ever be released to physical media. The song is on the Digital Praise PC game Guitar Praise.
Savior is the second full-length album by American synthpop band Metro Station. It was released independently on June 30, 2015. It is the band's first full-length album since its debut self-titled album, which had been released eight years prior. The band promoted the album while on the 2015 Warped Tour, on which the band played every date.
Usage examples of "savior".
Even now, Dura could hear from outside the car, Adda continued to curse his savior.
Also, in the exalted state I was in that awful morning, both Lambert and Alphonsine appeared to me as saviors and liberators.
Egyptians, then the letters of Clement, Bishop of Rome, others of Peter, and documents such as the Apocryphon of James, the Dialogue of the Savior, the unknown texts recorded in the Egerton Papyrus No.
She did what she had been doing since the day Mari plucked her from the elite training that her mentor and savior, Balthazar, was providing her.
The gratitude of the Carlovingians was adequate to these obligations, and their names are consecrated, as the saviors and benefactors of the Roman church.
Savior and convince Him to come to Zondar and fulfill His destiny, Talila had not known what to do with herself.
Savior, who bestows upon him the gentlest and most understanding of smiles, Kirk convulses and comes.
Bradley Johansson is our savior, and one day, all of humanity will know him as their savior.
God, and in eternal life, and in Jesus Christ, my savior, but I do not necessarily believe that the Meadows family and this organization is the one and only way to salvation.
It might seem that if the guards told the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees, of the miracles which occurred at the sepulchre, they must immediately have believed and proclaimed their belief in the Messiahship and resurrection of the crucified Savior.
Their period itself, in fact, was one of such terrible tumult that the end of the world and coming of the savior Saoshyant might well have been expected by anyone familiar with the old Zoroastrian theme.
Jac Smite, also known as Smoothy Jac, also known as Savior of our Land?
Jac Smite, also known as Smoothy Jac and Savior of our Land, do you wish to marry Lonny Burk?
Bore these two boys to be saviors of those who are dwellers on earth and Also of swift-sailing ships, when tempestuous gales rush and bluster Wintrily over the pitiless deep.
With a moment to breathe at last, Charity gazed adoringly up at her savior, the Archvillain of the Christian World.