ambrose(n = noun.person) saint ambrose, st. ambrose - (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397);
is a kind of bishop, church father, father, father of the church, composer, doctor, doctor of the church, saint, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer
Derived form adjective ambrosian1
A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3. Turner. [1913 Webster]
ambrose bierce, ambrose everett burnside, ambrose gwinett bierce, elmer ambrose sperry, saint ambrose, st. ambrose