daniel

1. 1.

   (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)

   Broaderprophet

   Old Testament

2. 2.

   a wise and upright judge

   “a Daniel come to judgment”

   Broaderjudge
3. 3.

   an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar

   SynonymsBook of DanielBook of the Prophet Daniel

   Broaderbook

   Part ofHagiographaOld Testament

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.