Usually means: Common male name of Hebrew origin.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Joseph, joseph: Merriam-Webster
  2. Joseph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Joseph, Joseph, joseph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. joseph: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Joseph: Vocabulary.com
  6. Joseph, joseph: Wordnik
  7. Joseph, joseph: Wiktionary
  8. Joseph: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Joseph: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Joseph: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Joseph, joseph: Dictionary.com
  12. Joseph: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Joseph (Dean of Armagh), Joseph (Genesis), Joseph (Hebrew Bible), Joseph (Khazar), Joseph (Petrovykh), Joseph (band), Joseph (comics), Joseph (disambiguation), Joseph (fashion brand), Joseph (given name), Joseph (name), Joseph (opera), Joseph (patriarch), Joseph (son of Jacob), Joseph (surname), Joseph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Joseph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. joseph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Joseph: Rhymezone
  17. Joseph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. JOSEPH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. Joseph: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Joseph: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Joseph, Joseph: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. joseph: FreeDictionary.org
  23. joseph: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Joseph: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Joseph (husband of Mary): Who2
  26. Joseph (father of Jesus): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  27. joseph: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Joseph (biblical), Joseph (disambiguation), Joseph (saint), Joseph: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Joseph: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Joseph: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. JOSEPH: Acronym Finder

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Joseph: Easton Bible
  2. Joseph: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Joseph: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. joseph, Joseph: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Joseph: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See josephs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Joseph)

noun:  (biblical) Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
noun:  The husband of Saint Mary and the father of Jesus.
noun:  The 12th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  (Christianity) Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.
noun:  A male given name from Hebrew.
noun:  A surname:
noun:  An English surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  A French surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  A locale in the United States:
noun:  A city in Wallowa County, Oregon; named for Nez Perce chief Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (called "Chief Joseph" in English).
noun:  A town in Sevier County, Utah; named for Mormon apostle Joseph Angell Young.
noun:  A ghost town in Idaho County, Idaho; named for Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it (Chief Joseph).
noun:  One whose chastity is above temptation (from the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife in Genesis xxxix).
noun:  (sometimes capitalised) A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.

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