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Gabriel vs Homer - What's the difference?

gabriel | homer |

As proper nouns the difference between gabriel and homer

is that gabriel is while homer is ancient greek poet; author of the iliad and the odyssey or homer can be .

gabriel

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:
  • Yea, it seems to me not fit for Christian humility to call a man Gabriel'' or ''Michael , giving the names of angels to the sons of mortality.
  • * 1986 , , Gabriel's Lament , Viking (1987), ISBN 0670816566, page 20:
  • "I'm the only Gabriel' in the whole school," I told my father. "You don't have to whisper it from the tomb, lad. You should thank your mother and me for giving you a handle that people notice. You ought to be pleased, not down in the dumps. Backstreet ' Gabriels aren't bumped into on every corner, remember.
  • An archangel associated, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.
  • * :
  • Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel , whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
  • * :
  • And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
  • homer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ancient Hebrew measure of capacity, equal to ten ephahs or ten s, and approximately equal to ten or eleven bushels.
  • * 1611, ,
  • The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer', and the ephah the tenth part of an '''homer''': the measure thereof shall be after the ' homer .
  • * 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses ,
  • Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.

    Etymology 2

    From home.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (baseball) A four-base hit; a home run
  • The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
  • A homing pigeon
  • Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.
  • (sports) A person who is extremely devoted to his favorite team.
  • Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (baseball) To get a four-base hit; to get a home run.
  • The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.
    Synonyms
    * to jack

    See also

    * single * double * triple