daniel

Other forms of daniel

plural

daniels·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about daniel

What does daniel mean?

daniel means "(Old Testament) a youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century BC)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in daniel?

daniel has 2 syllables: dan-iel. The stress falls on "dan". In IPA it is /ˈdænjəl/.

What is another word for daniel?

Close synonyms include Book of Daniel, Book of the Prophet Daniel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is daniel a common word?

daniel is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.