Ariel
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- proper noun
- /ˈɛəriəl/
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Ariel
- She's playing Ariel in the school play.
- Ariel appears
- Prospero and Ariel
- Ariel Dorfman
And now, dear friends, here's Ariel at Blah.
- And now, dear friends, here's Ariel at Blah.
- And now here's my conversation with Ariel Vinyalis.
- And now to your friends, here's Ariel Venialis.
- And it's funny though, but accidentally call my sister-in-law Ariel because she's more of an Ursula.
- We met Ariel, then they headed off and met, hey, what's her name?
- I have a lots of them, like Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, and they all have just one Prince.
- I think I finally found my shipwrecked Ariel dress.
- What does Ariel Roman have anything to do with South Central LA?
- Oh my God, I feel like Ariel from Oh my God, this beautiful bronzer.
Examples
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She is performing as Ariel in the upcoming school play based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Will it be Ariel's mom or me?
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I would like to take Ariel to the dance.
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We'll talk about your character after we put Ariel to bed, okay?
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There once was a unicorn named Ariel.
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Here, the big negotiation is who gets to be Ariel when we're playing Little Mermaid.
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Disney Princess Ariel, deep sea siren.
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In the Grandage production, the character of Ariel was played by a male actor, Daniel Evans.
Academic text (2009) -
You know Ariel's the name of a mermaid?
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More than anyone else he'd ever known, Ariel taught him the delights of everyday life.
Fiction book (1998)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ariel as a given name comes from the Hebrew Ari'el, from ari 'lion' and el 'God'. One popular way to remember Shakespeare's airy character called Ariel is that the name sounds like 'aerial' or 'air', so the name can feel both like a 'lion' and a spirit of the air.