Ariel Definition

ârē-əl
noun
A satellite of Uranus.
American Heritage
In Shakespeare's The Tempest, an airy spirit who is the servant of Prospero.
Webster's New World
A satellite of the planet Uranus.
Webster's New World

Common misspelling of aerial.

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Type of mountain gazelle, native to Arabia.
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pronoun

(biblical) A name for the city of Jerusalem.

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A male given name, also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.
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A female given name, used mainly since the 1980s.
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Name of the twelfth and brightest moon of the planet Uranus.

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Other Word Forms of Ariel

Noun

Singular:
Ariel
Plural:
ariels

Origin of Ariel

  • After Ariel a sylph that guards the heroine of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Biblical Hebrew, meaning "lion of God".

    From Wiktionary

Ariel Sentence Examples

  • Consuelo and Marc were dressed as Beauty and the Beast and the girls, Ariel and Cinderella.

  • We learn in them how Caliban (democracy), the mindless brute, educated to his own responsibility, makes after all an adequate ruler; how Prospero (the aristocratic principle, or, if we will, the mind) accepts his dethronement for the sake of greater liberty in the intellectual world, since Caliban proves an effective policeman, and leaves his superiors a free hand in the laboratory; how Ariel (the religious principle) acquires a firmer hold on life, and no longer gives up the ghost at the faintest hint of change.

  • Indeed, Ariel flourishes in the service of Prospero under the external government of the many-headed brute.

  • Ariel photograph taken during her cruise to the Med.

  • I think I could do with a new Ariel.

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Words Starting With

AARARI

Words Ending With

LELIEL

Unscrambles

Ariel

Words Starting With A and Ending With L

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With A5 Letter Words Ending With L