John

(informal) Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known.

(informal) Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).

(biblical) Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).

(biblical) The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.

(biblical) One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).

A surname originating as a patronymic.