Donzel

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A young squire or the attendant to a knight; a page obsolete
  2. 2
    A boy or an unmarried young man

Etymology

From Old French danzel and Italian donzello, both ultimately from Medieval Latin domicellus (“young nobleman, squire”), a diminutive of Latin dominus (“master, lord”). Compare donzella.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.