Paul vs Dan - What's the difference?
paul | dan |
In the New Testament, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
* : Acts 9:4 :
of biblical origin.
* 1848 (Charles Dickens), :
A city in Idaho.
(obsolete)
* Spenser
* Thomson
As a noun paul
is an old italian silver coin; a paolo or paul can be .As an adjective dan is
stretched.paul
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Then Saul, ( who is also called Paul ,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him
- 'He will be christened Paul , my - Mrs Dombey - of course.'
- She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.
- 'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'
Derived terms
* rob Peter to pay Paul * Saint Paul * PaulineAnagrams
* ----dan
English
(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.