Usually means: Missionary, translator, "Apostle to Indians."
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  1. John Eliot: Merriam-Webster
  2. Eliot, John: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Eliot, John, John Eliot: Dictionary.com
  4. John Eliot (Royal Navy officer), John Eliot (meteorologist), John Eliot (missionary), John Eliot (psychologist), John Eliot (statesman), John Eliot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Eliot, John, John Eliot: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (John Eliot)

noun:  (– 21 May 1690) a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645.
noun:  (2 June 1742 – 2 May 1769) a Royal Navy captain.
noun:  John Eliot (18 October 1612 – March 1685) of Port Eliot, St Germans, Cornwall was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1660 to 1685.
noun:  Sir (11 April 1592 – 27 November 1632) an English statesman who was serially imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he eventually died, by King Charles I for advocating the rights and privileges of Parliament.
noun:  an English language teacher, translator and author of the Ortho-epia Gallica,John Eliot, Ortho-epia Gallica, London : printed by [Richard Field for] Iohn VVolfe, 1593 a manual for teaching French to Englishmen in the form of dramatic, entertaining dialogues, which has long been recognized as a source book for Shakespeare.

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