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Daniel

//ˈdænjəl// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
  2. 2
    The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.

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

    ""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."

  4. 4
    A surname.; A British surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Daniels.
  5. 5
    A surname.; A French surname originating as a patronymic.
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  1. 6
    A surname.; A Portuguese surname originating as a patronymic.
  2. 7
    A surname.; A surname from Irish, a rare adopted anglicization of Ó Domhnaill (“O'Donnell”), from Ó (“descendant”) + Domhnaill (“of Domhnall”).
  3. 8
    A village in central Poland.
  4. 9
    A town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.
  5. 10
    A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who ingeniously saved a woman from false accusations of adultery.

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

  2. 2
    The buttocks. US, slang

    "He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]"

  3. 3
    a wise and upright judge wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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