1. A person of exceptional holiness
   "Pilgrims travelled from far and wide to seek the blessing of the saint";
   - holy person, angel
    
2. A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
   "The church celebrated the feast day of the newly canonized saint"
    
3. Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
   "Her patience with difficult students made her a saint among teachers";
   - ideal, paragon, nonpareil, apotheosis, nonesuch [archaic], nonsuch [archaic]

1. (religion) declare (a dead person) to be a saint
   "The Pope sainted Mother Teresa in 2016";
   - canonize, canonise [Brit]
    
2. Hold sacred
   "The culture sainted the values of honesty and hard work";
   - enshrine

Derived forms: sainting, sainted, saints

Type of: adjudge, declare, deity, divinity, fear, god, good person, hold, immortal, model, revere, reverence, role model, venerate

Part of: sainthood

Encyclopedia: Saint, Robert