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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saviour
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
saviour sibling
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the/sb's Saviour
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even if things go fairly badly it is not certain that voters would turn to Labour as economic saviour.
▪ It is difficult to reconcile such references with the tradition of a mild, pacifist saviour.
▪ It was then that my saviour arrived.
▪ Then a saviour appeared in the form of a man called Arthur Grogan.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
saviour

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.]

  1. One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

  2. Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saviour

chiefly British English spelling of savior (q.v.); for suffix, see -or.

Wiktionary
saviour

n. (alternative spelling of savior from=British from2=Canadian English)

Wikipedia
Saviour (comics)

Saviour is the title of a comic book series written by Mark Millar and drawn by Daniel Vallely and Nigel Kitching. It was Millar's first professionally published work.

Saviour (album)

Saviour is the debut album by the UK band, Antimatter, released in 2001.

Saviour (Anggun song)

"Saviour" (English) / "Cesse la pluie" (French) / "Mantra" (Indonesian) is a song recorded by Indonesian singer Anggun. Written originally in French by Evelyne Kral and Frédéric Jaffré, the song was adapted to English and Indonesian by Anggun. Released as the second single from Anggun's third international album, Luminescence (2005), it was also used as the soundtrack of the U.S. box office number-one film Transporter 2. The song remains one of Anggun's most popular single internationally.

Saviour (Lights song)

"Saviour" is the lead single from Canadian singer-songwriter Lights debut album The Listening. It was released on July 6, 2009 in Canada, April 13, 2010 in the United States and May 9, 2010 in the United Kingdom. A week after the song's release in Canada, the song has entered the Canadian Hot 100, debuting at number 49.

SAVIOUR (robot)

SAVIOUR is a rescue robot system from Pakistan. SAVIOUR is an acronym for "Semi Autonomous Vehicle for Inspection, Observation and Ultimate Rescue". The robot is the first rescue robot to be produced in Pakistan and was designed and built by the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI) in Topi, Pakistan.

Usage examples of "saviour".

Sauveur, without the slightest opposition from the venerable priest, who, far from sharing the anti-christain intolerancy of the clergy in general, said that her profession as an actress had not hindered her from being a good Christian, and that the earth was the common mother of all human beings, as Jesus Christ had been the Saviour of all mankind.

Christmas, and Bourne says, anent this belief, that it was about the time of cock crowing when our Saviour was born, and the heavenly host had then descended to sing the first Christmas carol to the poor shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem.

Arius called the Saviour the first of creatures, non-emanated from God, but really created, by the direct will of God, before time and the ages.

Saviour, the first of creatures, created by the direct will of God, 564-l.

However, the prince did not see this, and was delighted to find himself in love with the mother of the Saviour.

If there is any poor mortal who can not afford to be deprived of the aid of a sympathizing Saviour, it is one who has enervated his will, degraded his soul, and depraved his body by the vile habit of self-abuse.

Heaven when they are only justified, for the merits of the Saviour are sanctification eneuch for them.

Saviour, a veritable day-by-day diary, from infancy to ghosthood, of an Individual portrayed by men who knew Him least well and not at all.

On the same night I had the honour of offering my arm to Madame F--- during the procession which takes place in commemoration of the death of our Lord and Saviour, which was then attended on foot by all the nobility.

In the warmth of her thanks, which lasted until her postillion and mine had righted the cabriolet, she often called me her saviour, her guardian angel.

When I had finished with her I went to the Corticelli, who called me her saviour and her guardian angel.

The Hajji loved our Sahib with the love of a father for his son, of a saved for his saviour, of a Great One for a Great One.

There existed at that period in the East a Sect of Johannite Christians, who claimed to be the only true Initiates into the real mysteries of the religion of the Saviour.

Abraham, taught to the Egyptian priesthood by Joseph, recovered and purified by Moses, concealed under symbols in the Bible, revealed by the Saviour to Saint John, and contained, entire, under hieratic figures analogous to those of all antiquity, in the Apocalypse of that Apostle.

Hitler was too revanchist in his attitude toward Versailles, and Germany too potentially powerful, for there not to be strong ambivalence toward this latest anti-Communist saviour.