Meanings
plural Thiels
- A surname; variant forms Teale, Teel, Theel, Theil, Thiele.
And it was Mr. Thiel who brokered and attended a meeting at Mar-a-Lago at which Mr. Vance began his rehabilitation and reinvention.
2022 May 5, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, “Tucker, Thiel and Trump: How J.D. Vance Won in Ohio”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 20221 more example
Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers".
2024 August 14, Bryn Haworth, “Artificial Ignorance: broligarchs and their brains should read Gulliver”, in Al Majalla, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2024
Origin
- Lower SorbianBartyl
- EnglishThiel
* As a North German and Dutch surname, from a pet form of Dietrich, Diederik. * As an east German surname, from Lower Sorbian Bartyl, a name derived from Bartholomäus.
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Thiel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thiel
“Thiel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thiel. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Thiel,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Thiel.
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