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Samantha vs Daniel - What's the difference?

samantha | daniel |

As proper nouns the difference between samantha and daniel

is that samantha is while daniel is hungarian equivalent of daniel.

samantha

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1876 Phebe Ann Hanaford, Women of the Century , page 525:
  • These country girls, as they were called, had queer names, which added to the singularity of their appearance. Samantha , Triphena, Plumy, Leafy, Ruhamah, Lovey, and Florilla were among them.
  • * 1888 , (Marietta Holley), Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial , page 577:
  • "Its name is Samantha' Jo, after Josiah and me. - - - If it had been a boy, we was layin' out to call it Josiah Sam, - Sam for ' Samantha ."
  • * 1967 (Howard Fast), Samantha , I Books (2004), ISBN 0743479122, page 42:
  • "Middle of the depression - who's going to give a kid a nutty name like Samantha ? Today's another matter, but around then, from what I hear, people weren't thinking about these stylish names."
  • * 1985 (Bobbie Ann Mason), In Country , Harper&Row, ISBN 0060154691, pages 182, 183:
  • But here's my favorite name: Samuel. It's from the Bible. If it's a girl, name it Samantha . That sounds like something in a prayer, doesn't it? I think it's a name in the Chronicles. I've been reading the Bible every night." - - -
    She found the Book of Chronicles and scanned it. - - - There was no Samantha in either the first or the second book of the Chronicles.

    Usage notes

    * Popular in the English-speaking world from the 1970s to the 2000s.

    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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