Mark

noun /maːk,mɑː(ɹ)k,mɑɹk/

a) , also called John Mark, first patriarch of Alexandria and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.

"And your name?" she said, "I suppose its quite unremarkable?" "Very funny." "Mark. It could stand as a symbol of for a man, for men as a category," she reflected,"but I dont suppose thats why your mother gave it to you?" "My mothers motives always were inpenetrable to me. I was her only child, she wanted a simple life. So she gave me a simple name to go along with it. It wasnt a popular name until the nineteenth century. People were put of by King Mark in the Tristram and Iseult."

b) The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.

And Barnabas was determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them in Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder from the other; and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed to Cyprus.

See Also: Marky, Marcus, Marcel, Martin, Marcia