Usually means: Spear that pierced Jesus' side.
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  1. Longinus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Longinus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Longinus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Longinus: Wordnik
  5. Longinus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Longinus: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Longinus: Dictionary.com
  8. Longinus (Christian hagiography), Longinus (Roman governor), Longinus (abbot), Longinus (disambiguation), Longinus (film), Longinus (literature), Longinus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Longinus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Longinus: Encyclopedia

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  1. longinus, Longinus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Longinus)

noun:  (Greek: Λογγίνος) the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity.
noun:  a 2004 Japanese action horror featurette directed by Ryuhei Kitamura.
noun:  Flavius (Greek: Λογγῖνος; fl. 475–491) a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire, brother of Emperor Zeno and twice consul (in 486 and 490).
noun:  the hegumenos (superior or abbot) of the Enaton, a monastic community outside Alexandria in Roman Egypt.
noun:  a Byzantine Monophysite missionary and the first ordained Christian bishop in Nubia.

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