Daniel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: Dăn'yəl
ipa: /ˈdænjəl/
ipa: [ˈdanjəl]
enpr: Dăn'əl
ipa: /ˈdænəl/
ipa: /ˈdeɪnjɛl/
rhymes: -ænjəl
Forms: form: Danis
form: Daneau
form: Danel
form: Danès
form: Danet
form: Daniau
form: Deniau
form: Deniaud
form: Deniel
form: Dennel
form: Dany
form: Daniellot
form: Daniélou
Etymology: From Middle English Daniel, Daniell, from Ancient Greek Δᾱνῑήλ (Dānīḗl), from Hebrew דָּנִיֵּאל (daniyél, literally “God is my judge”), name borne from the prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
Senses: synonyms: word: Dan.
glosses: A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
examples: text: Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the denne of Lions: now the king spake and saide vnto Daniel; Thy God, whom thou seruest continually, he will deliuer thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 6:16:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
examples: text: "His name is Daniel Needham," my mother said. Whew! With what relief - down came my grandmother's hands! Needham was a fine old name, a founding fathers sort of name, a name you could trace back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - if not exactly Gravesend itself. And Daniel was as Daniel as Daniel Webster, which was as good a name as a Wheelwright could wish for.
"But he's called Dan," my mother added, bringing a slight frown to my grandmother's countenance.
ref: 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices. Daniel found one called the Creole could help him access vast swathes of visual, color-coded data, opening a door back to color that he had previously thought shut.
ref: 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN:
text: Farmer also happened to be just the kind of expert that Franck and his co-author Daniel Abraham needed to bring their novels to the screen.
ref: 2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew in regular use since the Middle Ages.
glosses: A surname.
A British surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Daniels.
glosses: A surname.
A French surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A surname.
A Portuguese surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Irish, a rare adopted anglicization of Ó Domhnaill (O'Donnell).
glosses: A village in central Poland.
glosses: A town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.
Derived terms: Daniel come to judgement
Danielish
Daniel Island
Danielness
Daniels
Danielsen
Danielson
Danielsville
dreamy Daniel
McDaniels
Related terms: word: Dan
word: Danny
sense: feminine equivalents
word: Dana
sense: feminine equivalents
word: Daniela
sense: feminine equivalents
word: Daniella
sense: feminine equivalents
word: Danielle
word: Daniil