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oriol

oriol is the archaic spelling of oriel.

Meaning of oriel

Noun

oriel (plural oriels)

  1. A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.
    • The middle window of the oriel before her, just caught and reflected back the crimson light and colour. The ground below looked bright and warm compared with the shade around.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 202
  2. (obsolete) A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining.

Proper noun capitalized: Oriol

Oriol (plural Oriols)

  1. A surname.

Forms of oriol

Noun
pluraloriols
Proper noun
pluralOriols

Origin of oriol

Borrowed from Catalan and French Oriol.

Questions about oriol

What does oriol mean?
Oriol means a surname.
What is oriol the archaic spelling of?
Oriol is the archaic spelling of oriel.
What part of speech is oriol?
Oriol is a proper noun.

Words near oriol in the dictionary

  1. Orinoco goose
  2. Orinoco piculet
  3. Orinoco saltator
  4. Orinoco saltators
  5. Orins
  6. oriol
  7. oriole
  8. orioles
  9. oriolid
  10. oriolids
  11. oriols

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oriol (page history and authors); Oriol (page history and authors); oriel (page history and authors). 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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