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Noun: john  jón
Usage: informal
  1. A room or building equipped with one or more toilets
    - toilet, lavatory, lav [informal], can [N. Amer, informal], bathroom, water closet [Brit, archaic], closet [archaic], W.C. [Brit], loo [Brit, informal], bog [Brit, informal], jacks [Ireland, informal]
     
  2. A prostitute's customer
    - trick
Noun: John  jón
  1. Youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)
    - King John, John Lackland
     
  2. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation
    - Saint John, St. John, Saint John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, John the Divine
     
  3. The last of the four Gospels in the New Testament
    - Gospel of John, Gospel According to John

Derived forms: Johns, johns

Type of: Apostle, book, client, customer, evangel, Evangelist, Gospel, Gospels, King of England, King of Great Britain, room, saint

Part of: New Testament, Plantagenet, Plantagenet line

Encyclopedia: John, Lord Carmichael