gospel

CEFRC1

/ˈɡɒspəl/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    The teachings of Jesus or one of the first four books of the New Testament.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.

Examples

  • They spread the Gospel all over the world.

  • We need to figure out if it's gossip or gospel.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.

  2. The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.

  3. That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).

More examples

In context

  • What he says is gospel.

  • took her words for gospel

  • Spreading the gospel of dental hygiene in Vermont

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Origin

noun

From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspell (“gospel”), corresponding to God + spell (“talk, tale, story”), literally “the message of God”, believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”) (English evangel). Compare Old Saxon gōdspel and godspell (“gospel”), Old High German and Middle High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”), and the modern calque Malayalam സുവിശേഷം (suviśēṣaṁ).