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Definition of Ariel
1. n. A variety of the gazelle (Antilope, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries.
2. n. In the Cabala, a water spirit; in later folklore, a light and graceful spirit of the air.
Definition of Ariel
1. Proper noun. (biblical) A name for the city of Jerusalem. ¹
2. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name), also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature. ¹
3. Proper noun. (Hebrew female given name), used mainly since the 1980s. ¹
4. Proper noun. Name of the twelfth and brightest moon of the planet Uranus. ¹
5. Noun. (misspelling of aerial) ¹
6. Noun. type of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ariel
1. an African gazelle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ariel
Literary usage of Ariel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of American Pastimes: Containing a History of the Principal Base by Charles A. Peverelly (1866)
"The presentation of this prize was made to the Ariel Club by Mr. Jennings S.
Cox, of the Undine, and received on the part of the Ariel by Mr. JH Lee. ..."
2. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"On the 9th day ot February, 1889, AD, I cleared the said schooner "Ariel" at the
Customs at the said port of Victoria for a ..."
3. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1871)
"Ariel won with great ease, for H. Lynch, Esq., a match against a Bussorah colt—$1000
each—two miles. 6. October. The ensuing autumn, at the same course, ..."
4. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1896)
"Pachyptila ariel, Cab. £ Reichenow, Jf Orn. 1876, p. 328. Adult. ... (One of the
types of P. ariel.) Pott's Island, New Zealand, Dec. 1871. ..."
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