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

arias
ariboflavinoses
ariboflavinosis
aricine
arid
arider
aridest
aridification
aridisol
aridisols
aridities
aridity
aridly
aridness
aridnesses
ariel (current term)
ariel gazelle
ariels
aries
arietation
arietations
arietta
ariettas
ariette
ariettes
aright
aril
ariled
arillary
arillate

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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