judas
/ˈd͡ʒuːdəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.37 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“traitor”).
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Judas (“Judas-hole”).
name
Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.
name
A male given name from Hebrew.
name
Alternative form of Jude, the penultimate book of the Bible and its ascribed author, Jude the Apostle (Judas Thaddaeus).
Archaic
noun
Ellipsis of Judas-hole (“small hole for spying”).
Example Sentences
- "There is no better example of such a phenomenon as the infamous moment when Bob Dylan was proclaimed a ‘judas’ for going electric."
- "Soon he heard a soft grating behind the judas, and he felt—more than he saw—that a pair of eyes were peering at him from within."
- "[…] you should as well reject those Deuterocanonici of the new testament as the epistle to the Hebrewes, Judas epistle and the Apocalyps […]"
- "The Catholique (or General) Epistle of the Apostle JUDAS"
- "St. Peter writes against those that had the doctrine of Balaam, 2 Pet. ii. 15, 16. St. Judas did the same, Jud. v. 11."
- "If there was a moment when Jack Dorsey first morphed from Jesus to Judas in the minds of many former Twitter staffers, it was when he described Elon Musk as the “singular solution” to take over the social media platform he co-founded."
Etymology
From Middle English Iudas, from Latin Iudas, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá). Doublet of Judah.
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.