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Ashley vs Daniel - What's the difference?

ashley | daniel |

As proper nouns the difference between ashley and daniel

is that ashley is a common english place name while daniel is hungarian equivalent of daniel.

ashley

English

Alternative forms

* Ashlee * Ashleigh * Ashlie

Proper noun

(s)
  • A common English place name.
  • derived from the places.
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind : Chapter III:
  • 'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley ? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
  • But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley'' : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in ''nouvelle cuisine .

    Usage notes

    * Ashley was originally a male given name, but since the sixties it has also been given to women, particularly in the US, where it was the top name for girls in 1991 and 1992.

    daniel

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
  • The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
  • * : Daniel 6: 16 :
  • Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel', and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto ' Daniel , Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
  • * ~1594 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice: Act IV, Scene I :
  • A Daniel' come to judgment! yea, a ' Daniel ! / O wise young judge, how do I honour thee!
  • in regular use since the Middle Ages.
  • * 1989 , A Prayer for Owen Meany , Corgi Books, ISBN 0552135399, page 55:
  • "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.
  • (rare) .
  • A location in the state of Wyoming in the United States (Zip Code: 83115). (From the U.S. Census Bureau 1990)
  • Derived terms

    * Daniel come to judgement * Daniel Island * Daniels * Danielsen * Danielson * Danielsville * McDaniels

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