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russel

/ˈɹʌsəl/

russel noun: a twilled woolen material.

Noun

russel (countable and uncountable, plural russels)

  1. (historical) A twilled woolen material.
  2. (countable, obsolete) A fox.
    • And dan ruſſel the fox stert up at onys
      And be gorget hent chanteclere
      And on his bake toward the wode him bere.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of...

Proper noun capitalized: Russel

Russel

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname, a rather rare spelling variant of Russell.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

russel meaning in Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali

russel in Urdu

روسیل

russel in Punjabi

ਰੂਸੇਲ

russel in Nepali

रुसेल

Forms of russel

pluralrussels

Plural of russel: russels

Origin of russel

From Old French roussel, from Latin russulus, diminutive of russus (“red”).

Words formed from russel

Phrases with russel

Words that rhyme with russel

Questions about russel

What does russel mean?
Russel means a twilled woolen material.
What is russel in Urdu?
Russel in Urdu is روسیل. See Russel meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is russel?
Russel can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce russel?
Russel is pronounced /ˈɹʌsəl/.
What is the plural of russel?
The plural of russel is russels.

Words near russel in the dictionary

  1. Ruspidge and Soudley
  2. Russ
  3. Russ.
  4. Russaw
  5. Russaws
  6. russel
  7. russel cord
  8. russel cords
  9. russelioside
  10. Russell
  11. Russell bodies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: russel (page history and authors); Russel (page history and authors); russel (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); russel (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); russel (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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