daniel
/ˈdænjəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.62 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
name
A male given name from Hebrew in regular use since the Middle Ages.
name
A surname.
name
A surname.
name
A surname.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""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."
- "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! / O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!"
- "He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Daniel, Δᾱνῑήλ, דָּנִיֵּאל
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdænjəl/
- British English: /ˈdænjəl/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
Danis (alternative)
Daneau (alternative)
Danel (alternative)
Danès (alternative)
Danet (alternative)
Daniau (alternative)
Deniau (alternative)
Deniaud (alternative)
Deniel (alternative)
Dennel (alternative)
Dany (alternative)
Daniellot (alternative)