DANIEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Daniel mean? 

• DANIEL (noun)
  The noun DANIEL has 3 senses:

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)

2. a wise and upright judge

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

  Familiarity information: DANIEL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DANIEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wise and upright judge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a Daniel come to judgment

Hypernyms ("Daniel" is a kind of...):

judge; jurist; justice (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Daniel; Book of the Prophet Daniel; Daniel

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Daniel" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

 Context examples 

Drs. Daniel Baldauf and Robert Desimone of the McGovern Institute at MIT set out to gain a better understanding.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

NHGRI scientific director Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D. and his team sequenced gene regions across the genome and discovered only one gene — RIPK1 — to be consistently different in all patients.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)

“It’s a bit like film photography,” explained graduate student researcher Daniel Oran.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They put it into a bed and rubbed it, and Daniel went to the town for an apothecary, but life was quite gone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

An international research team led by Dr. Daniel J. Rader at the University of Pennsylvania found a genetic variant within the gene SCARB1, which codes for the major HDL receptor on liver cells, scavenger receptor class BI (SR-BI).

(When HDL cholesterol doesn’t protect against heart disease, NIH)

This black hole grew far larger than we expected in only 690 million years after the Big Bang, which challenges our theories about how black holes form, said study co-author Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

A team led by Dr. Daniel Mirman at Drexel University and Dr. Myrna F. Schwartz at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute set out to better understand the basis of language by studying people with aphasia using both neuroimaging and behavioral assessment.

(Brain Mapping of Language Impairments, NIH)

Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)