Daniel — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.

2. The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.

   Related words

   Daniil

   Examples

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   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.

3. A male given name from Hebrew in regular use since the Middle Ages.

   Examples

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   "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.

   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.

   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.

4. A surname. A British surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Daniels.

5. A surname. A French surname originating as a patronymic.

6. A surname. A Portuguese surname originating as a patronymic.

7. A surname. A surname from Irish, a rare adopted anglicization of Ó Domhnaill (“O'Donnell”), from Ó (“descendant”) + Domhnaill (“of Domhnall”).

8. A village in central Poland.

9. A town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.

10. A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.

Noun

1. A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who ingeniously saved a woman from false accusations of adultery.

   Examples

   A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! / O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!

Noun

1. a wise and upright judge

   Broader terms

   judgejusticejurist