What is the difference between dan and daniel?
dan | daniel |
(obsolete)
* Spenser
* Thomson
A book in the Old Testament of the Bible.
The prophet whose story is told in the Book of Daniel.
* : Daniel 6: 16 :
* ~1594 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice: Act IV, Scene I :
in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1989 , A Prayer for Owen Meany , Corgi Books, ISBN 0552135399, page 55:
(rare) .
A location in the state of Wyoming in the United States (Zip Code: 83115). (From the U.S. Census Bureau 1990)
Daniel is a related term of dan.
As nouns the difference between dan and daniel
is that dan is a rank of black belt in martial arts while daniel is the buttocks.As proper nouns the difference between dan and daniel
is that dan is the fifth son of Jacob, whose mother was his wife's handmaid Bilhah while Daniel is a book in the Old Testament of the Bible.dan
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(dan rank)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Etymology 2
Uncertain.Etymology 3
(etyl)Noun
- Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
- What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Anagrams
* * * * * ----daniel
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
- A Daniel' come to judgment! yea, a ' Daniel ! / O wise young judge, how do I honour thee!
- "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.