daniel

plural daniels

1. USslangThe buttocks.

   He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]

   1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 85

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1. biblicalA book in the Old Testament of the Bible.

   Synonyms: Dan.

2. biblicalThe prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.

   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.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 6:16

3. A male given name from Hebrew in regular use since the Middle Ages.

   Farmer also happened to be just the kind of expert that Franck and his co-author Daniel Abraham needed to bring their novels to the screen.

   2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz, Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021

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   "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.

   1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 55

   Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices. Daniel found one called the Creole could help him access vast swathes of visual, color-coded data, opening a door back to color that he had previously thought shut.

   2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025

4. A surname.
   1. A British surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Daniels.
   2. A French surname originating as a patronymic.
   3. A Portuguese surname originating as a patronymic.
   4. A surname from Irish, a rare adopted anglicization of Ó Domhnaill (“O'Donnell”), from Ó (“descendant”) + Domhnaill (“of Domhnall”).
5. A village in central Poland.
6. A town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.
7. A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.

plural Daniels

1. A wise judge, like the biblical Daniel who ingeniously saved a woman from false accusations of adultery.

   A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! / O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]