daniel
see also: Daniel
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdænjəl/, /ˈdanjəl/
Noun

daniel (plural daniels)

  1. (US slang) The buttocks.
    • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 85:
      He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]

Daniel
Pronunciation
  • enPR: Dăn'yel, IPA: /ˈdænjəl/
    • (British) IPA: [ˈdanjəl]
Proper noun
  1. A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
    Synonyms: Dan.
  2. (biblical character) The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Daniel 6:16 ↗:
      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 in regular use since the Middle Ages.
    • 1989 John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Corgi Books, ISBN 0552135399, page 55:
      "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. Surname, a variant of Daniels.
  5. Surname
  6. Surname
  7. Surname, a rare adopted anglicization of Ó Domhnaill (O'Donnell).
  8. A village in central Poland.
  9. A town in Utah, US.
  10. CDP in Wyoming, US.
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daniel (plural daniels)

  1. A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who ingeniously saved a woman from false accusations of adultery.
    • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene i:
      A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! / O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!



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