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Meaning of savior in English

savior
noun [ C ]
US (UK saviour)
us
/ˈseɪ.vjɚ/ uk
/ˈseɪ.vjər/
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a person who saves someone from danger or harm
the/our Savior
in the Christian religion, a way of referring to Jesus
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(Definition of savior from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

savior | Intermediate English

savior
noun [ C ]
(Cdn Br saviour)
us
/ˈseɪv·jər/
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a person who saves someone from danger or harm
In Christianity, the Savior is a name for Jesus.
(Definition of savior from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of savior

savior
Saviors tend to stop growing once they begin preaching.
From Los Angeles Times
But at the time he took little credit for himself, letting others cast him as the savior.
From Reuters
Both, of course, were at one point viewed as saviors by fans.
From cleveland.com
The internet was supposed to be a sort of truth savior.
From TechCrunch
The savior's backstage, we have a picture of him.
From Chicago Tribune
He needed to feel like he was these people's economic savior.
From Huffington Post
He looked much more like a bust than a franchise savior in the first half.
From MLive.com
It suggests that the young son of a nice, smart, strong single mom might be the scourge, not the savior, of the future.
From TIME
The argument for a savior of the genre may not be as hard to make as you think.
From TIME
And it's that very sinfulness that sets up our understanding of our need for a savior.
From NPR
However, this savior window only lasts 90 seconds.
From Gizmodo
Our next potential saviors appeared: a group of uniformed policemen, dressed in winter black pullovers.
From Bloomberg
By the 1910s, the progressives emerged as the most likely saviors.
From Slate Magazine
Natural gas isn't a savior and it won't destroy the world either.
From TIME
Now, would-be saviors are being asked to test and demonstrate their results.
From Foreign Policy
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