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What does James mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
  2. One of two Apostles, James the Greater and James the Less, often identified with James, brother of Jesus.
  3. A male given name popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
  4. An English patronymic surname​.
Name
  1. A male given name of Hebrew origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The supplanter. A form of Jacob.
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A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
Despite his antitheological bias, James recognized that he could not completely discount religious doctrines.
Spanish whistle-blower Ana Garrido tells James Badcock how exposing murky deals in the ruling Popular Party ruined her life.
Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.
Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.
His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist.

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