ariel
/ˈɛɹiəl//ˈɛəɹɪəl/
ariel noun: a kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia. Also the misspelling of aerial.
Noun
ariel (plural ariels)
Proper noun capitalized: Ariel
Ariel (plural Ariels)
- A name for the city of Jerusalem, the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel, and the claimed capital city of modern Palestine.
- Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 29:1
- A male given name from Hebrew, also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.
- Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 8:16
- All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.Scene ii
- A female given name from Hebrew, used mainly since the 1980s.
- "I'm going to name her Ariel," Laura said, ignoring them completely as she stared down at the baby. "The boys like the name because it's the same as the girl in the Little Mermaid movie. And I like it, because it's pretty."1992, Kristina Logan, The Right Man for Loving, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 190
- All the miniature Cinderellas, Belles, and Ariels who fill the streets every Halloween are essentially paying homage to characters that will slowly and inevitably chip away at their sense of worth in years to come.2018, Jen Kim, Love and…: Bad Boys, “The One” & Other Fun Ways to Sabotage Your Relationship, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN
- The brightest moon of the planet Uranus.
- An Israeli settlement and city in the central West Bank.
Also used as
ariel is also the misspelling of aerial.
ariel meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
ariel in Hindi
- एरियेल
ariel in Marathi
- एरियेल
ariel in Urdu
- ایریل, اریل
ariel in Bengali
- অ্যারিয়েল, আরিয়েল
More languagesFewer languages
- ariel in Telugu
- అరియెల్, అరియల్
- ariel in Malayalam
- അരിയേൽ
- ariel in Kannada
- ಏರಿಯಲ್, ಅರಿಯೆಲ್
- ariel in Punjabi
- ਏਰੀਏਲ, ਅਰੀਅਲ, ਏਰੀਆਲ
- ariel in Gujarati
- એરિયલ, એરિયેલ
- ariel in Odia
- ଏରିଆଲ୍, ଆରିଏଲ, ଏରିଏଲ
- ariel in Nepali
- एरियेल
Forms of ariel
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ariels |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ariels |
| alternative form | Arielle |
Origin of ariel
From Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל (ari'él, a compound of אֲרִי (arí, “lion”) + אֵל (él, “God”), literally “lion of God”). * (moon of Uranus): All of Uranus’s moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, though it is uncertain if Herschel devised the names, or if Lassell did so and then sought Herschel’s permission. Ariel is the name of the leading sylph in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and also the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Words formed from ariel
Phrases with ariel
Words that rhyme with ariel
- aerial
- glossarial
- emissarial
- filarial
- furcocercarial
- nareal
- notarial
- proprietarial
- secretarial
- vicarial
- anticercarial
- antifilarial
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- antimalarial
- antimicrofilarial
- apothecarial
- aquarial
- areal
- Arial
- biareal
- bibliothecarial
- bipinnarial
- bursarial
- calendarial
- calvarial
- cancellarial
- cercarial
- cibarial
- circumnarial
- commentarial
- commissarial
- conarial
- corollarial
- diarial
- dictionarial
- dirofilarial
- dissepimentarial
- estuarial
- extraovarial
- fusarial
- garial
- germarial
- gharial
- herbarial
- impresarial
- interareal
- intergermarial
- internarial
- intracalvarial
- intranarial
- intrapuparial
- kalendarial
- librarial
- macrofilarial
- malarial
- metacercarial
- microfilarial
- miliarial
- monetarial
- narial
- nectareal
Questions about ariel
- What does ariel mean?
- Ariel means a kind of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia.
- What is ariel in Hindi?
- Ariel in Hindi is एरियेल. See Ariel meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ariel?
- Ariel can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ariel?
- Ariel is pronounced /ˈɛɹiəl/.
- What is the plural of ariel?
- The plural of ariel is ariels.
Words near ariel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ariel (page history and authors); Ariel (page history and authors); ariel (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ariel (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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