john

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A prostitute's client.
2. 2
   A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
3. 3
   A Western man traveling in East Asia.
4. 4
   A male mule.
5. 5
   A new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
6. 6
   Alternative letter-case form of john (“a toilet, lavatory, outhouse, chamber pot”).
7. 7
   An excuse, chiefly made by a losing player for their poor performance.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.
2. 2
   A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages: Used generically for a man whose actual name may not be known.
3. 3
   A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages: Used frequently to form an idea personified, as in John Bull, John Barleycorn (see derivations below).
4. 4
   Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).
5. 5
   The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.
6. 6
   One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).
7. 7
   A surname originating as a patronymic.