Daniel

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

Proper noun

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

    Synonyms: Dan.

  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. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […]...
  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...
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz, Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of...
  4. A surname.

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

    2. A French surname originating as a patronymic.

    3. A Portuguese surname originating as a patronymic.

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

  5. A village in central Poland.
  6. A town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.
  7. A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.

Origin

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.

Forms

Danis Daneau Danel Danès Danet Daniau Deniau Deniaud Deniel Dennel Dany Daniellot Daniélou

Related

Dan Danny Dana Daniela Daniella Danielle Daniil

Derived

Daniel come to judgement Danielish Daniel Island Danielness Daniels Danielsen Danielson Danielsville dreamy Daniel McDaniels

Noun

  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! - c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...

Forms

Daniels

Derived

Daniel come to judgement