GABRIEL

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• GABRIEL (noun)
  The noun GABRIEL has 1 sense:

1. (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God

  Familiarity information: GABRIEL used as a noun is very rare.

• GABRIEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Gabriel" is a kind of...):

archangel (an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy)

Domain category:

Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God (the sacred writings of the Christian religions)

 Context examples 

The Fahrenheit temperature scale is named after the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), who proposed it in 1724.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Now isn't that stean at any rate—he hammered it with his stick as he spoke—a pack of lies? and won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' up the grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The first was a will, drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which he had returned six months before, to serve as a testament in case of death and as a deed of gift in case of disappearance; but in place of the name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement read the name of Gabriel John Utterson.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A thermometric scale named after the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit, on which under standard atmospheric pressure the boiling point of water is at 212 degrees above the zero of the scale, the freezing point is at 32 degrees above zero, and the zero point approximates the temperature produced by mixing equal quantities by weight of snow and common salt.

(Fahrenheit Scale, NCI Thesaurus)