RACHEL

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

1. (Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

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

• RACHEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

Over a thousand were reported to have reached Rachel, but most did not make the final trek to the base.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

As I left the dining-room I happened to meet Rachel Howells, the maid.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The nearest settlement to Area 51 is Rachel in Lincoln County.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

For two days Rachel Howells had been so ill, sometimes delirious, sometimes hysterical, that a nurse had been employed to sit up with her at night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rachel—who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament—had a sharp touch of brain-fever, and goes about the house now—or did until yesterday—like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This strange find was all that we could get from the mere, and, although we made every possible search and inquiry yesterday, we know nothing of the fate either of Rachel Howells or of Richard Brunton.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head gamekeeper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)