a youth who was taken into the household of Nebuchadnezzar, received guidance and apocalyptic visions from God, and was given divine protection when thrown into the lions' den the book that recounts these experiences and visions (in full The Book of the Prophet Daniel) - (often preceded by a)
a wise upright person
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Dan•iel
(dan′yəl),USA pronunciation n.
- Bible
- Biblea prophet living in Babylon during the Captivity.
- the book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbr.: Dan.
- Biographical Samuel, 1562–1619, English poet and historian: poet laureate 1599–1619.
- a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning "the Lord is my judge.''
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Paul (Wilson). born 1958, English conductor; musical director of the English National Opera (1997–2005) Samuel. ?1562–1619, English poet and writer: author of the sonnet sequence Delia (1592)
'Daniel' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Abednego
- Ancient of Days
- Armstrong
- Auber
- Barenboim
- Bel and the Dragon
- Belshazzar
- Belteshazzar
- Bernoulli
- Bernoulli equation
- Bernoulli's theorem
- Boone
- Bovet
- Conybeare
- Dan.
- Danl.
- Danny
- Day-Lewis
- Defoe
- Duluth
- Emmett
- Fahrenheit
- French
- Fuchs
- Gabriel
- Gilman
- Guggenheim
- Hagiographa
- Halpern
- Handler
- James
- Jones
- Leahy
- Libeskind
- M'Naghten test
- Malan
- Meshach
- Michener
- Moll Flanders
- Morgan
- Nathans
- O'Connell
- Ortega
- Ortega Saavedra
- Pollen
- Ruhmkorff coil
- Rutherford
- Schleiermacher
- Shadrach
- Shays