Definition of "Jeremiah"

Jeremiah

/ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪə/

proper noun
1. (Abrahamic religions) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.
  Quotations
  And Ieremiah lamented for Ioſiah, and all the ſinging men and the ſinging women ſpake of Ioſiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Iſrael; and beholde, they are written in the Lamentations.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Chronicles 35:25, column 1
2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
3. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
  Quotations
  The man whom you call Diarmaid when you speak Irish, a low, pernicious, un-Irish, detestable custom, begot by slavery, and propagated by cringing, and fostered by flunkeyism, forces you to call Jeremiah when you speak English, or as a concession, Darby.
  2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, . Cork University Press., page 8
noun
plural Jeremiahs
1. A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.
interjection
1. (UK) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.