[air-ee-uh
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| a mountain gazelle of Arabia, Gazella gazella arabica: almost extinct. |
[air-ee-uhl] | 1. | (in Shakespeare's Tempest) a spirit of the air who is required to use his magic to help Prospero. |
| 2. | Astronomy. one of the moons of the planet Uranus. |
| 3. | Aerospace. one of a series of British satellites that studied the ionosphere, cosmic rays, and x-rays. |
| 4. | Also, Ar⋅i⋅elle [ar-ee-el, air-] . a female given name. |
| 5. | a male given name. |
| Ar·i·el (âr'ē-əl) n. A satellite of Uranus. [After Ariel, a sylph that guards the heroine of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope.] |
Ariel
the lion of God. (1.) One of the chief men sent by Ezra to procure Levites for the sanctuary (Ezra 8:16). (2.) A symbolic name for Jerusalem (Isa. 29:1, 2, 7) as "victorious under God," and in Ezek. 43:15, 16, for the altar (marg., Heb. 'ariel) of burnt offerings, the secret of Israel's lion-like strength.