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Noun john the baptist has 1 sense

John the Baptist, St. John the Baptist - (New Testament) a preacher and hermit and forerunner of Jesus (whom he baptized); was beheaded by Herod at the request of Salome
--₁ is a kind of hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte; saint