Haskell

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/ˈhæskəl/

proper noun

A surname.

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

proper nounHaskell (countable and uncountable, plural Haskells)

plural Haskells · alternative Hascall · alternative Heiskell

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
    1 more example

    But with Haskell having the advantage of the incumbent — losing in the primary would be a big upset — and Conklin running as a third-party independent, with her legal experience as a Clallam County prosecutor 35 years in the past, the big fight to advance to the general from the Aug. 2 primary could come down to Stephanie vs. Stefanie.

    2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2025
    1. countableuncountableAn English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the Old Norse given name Áskell.
    2. countableuncountableA Jewish surname derived from the equivalent of English Ezekiel.
  2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. countableuncountablecomputer languagesA general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.

    By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one.

    2014, Alejandro Serrano Mena, Beginning Haskell: A Project-Based Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 5
  4. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Haskell County, Texas, United States.

Origin

  1. Old NorseÁskell
  2. EnglishHaskell

* The programming language is named after American logician Haskell Curry (1900–1982). * As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Askell, from Old Norse Áskell. Compare Axtell, Askin, Haskin, Hasty, Astin. * As a surname in the Isle of Man, a variant of Castell, itself related to the above. * As a Jewish surname, from Khaskl, a Yiddish form of Yeḥezqel, see Ezekiel.

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Translations

Arabic هاسكل
  • هاسكلlanguage
Dutch Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage
Esperanto Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage
French Haskell, en Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage
  • en HaskellThe programming language
  • de Haskellof or relating to Haskell
  • Haskellof or relating to Haskell
German Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage
Italian Haskell, Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage
  • Haskellof or relating to Haskell
Japanese Haskell [sic]
  • Haskell [sic]language
Polish Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage
Portuguese Haskell
  • Haskelllanguage

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

Haskell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haskell

MLA

“Haskell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haskell. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Haskell,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Haskell.

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