Noun
- 1. messiah, christ, savior, saviour, rescuer, deliverer
- usage: any expected deliverer
- 2. Messiah
- usage: Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer
- 3. Messiah
- usage: the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
- 4. Messiah
- usage: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
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