What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Mia vs Rachel - What's the difference?

mia | rachel |

As proper nouns the difference between mia and rachel

is that mia is while rachel is rachel (biblical character).

mia

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • Missing In Action
    • When his patrol didn't come back from the front, he and all his buddies were listed as MIA .
  • (Mormonism) Mutual Improvement Association

    • Synonyms

    * (Mutual Improvement Association) Mutual ,

    Related terms

    * (military) KIA

    Anagrams

    *

    rachel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Rachael * Rachelle

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob.
  • *
    • And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel'. Leah was tender eyed; but '''Rachel''' was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved '''Rachel'''; and said, I will serve thee seven years for ' Rachel thy younger daughter.
  • .
  • * 1849 The Massachusetts Teacher , Massachusetts Teachers' Association, Vol. 2,page 26, January 1849:
    • Rachel is another modest, nun-like name, of the same order as Judith, and has the appropriate signification of a lamb.
  • * 1979 , Shikasta , Knopf, 1979, ISBN 0394507321, page 293
    • She keeps saying, You are mistaken Rachel'. She says my name in that heavy earnest way. The Jewish '''Ra-chel'''. I like my name like that. I have always been pleased when people said ' Ra-chel . But when she says it, it is as if she was taking me over. Through my name.
  • * 2010 Rob Sachs, What Would Rob Do? , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470457732:
    • I recognize that a name like Rachel goes against my whole "ordering a different dish from everyone else at the table" rule, but sometimes you really want a steak, and that's exactly what you should get. I love the name we gave our daughter. It's not dorky, not too whimsical, and not too stuck-up. To us it sounded sweet, sporty, smart, and beautiful. It also works well with Sachs.