David

From Middle English David, Davyd, Davyde, from Old English Dauid, David, from Latin David, Davidus, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪvɪd/

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David (countable and uncountable, plural Davids)

1. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 169:

     David Copperfield. Dwight David Eisenhower. Michelangelo's David. None of these Davids would seem the same if their names were Dave. David, with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely.

   • 2000, Anne Rice, Merrick, Ballantine Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 157:

     Well, don't think I'll settle for so little, Mr. Talbot. Or should I call you David? I think you look like a David, you know, righteous and clean living and all of that.

   • 2021 January 28, Chandelis Duster, “Parkland shooting survivor calls for House GOP leader to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg called on Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Thursday to denounce Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has faced intense criticism this week over incendiary remarks she made in recent years as well as a viral video in which she harasses Hogg.

3. (biblical) The second king of Judah and Israel, the successor of King Saul in the Hebrew Bible; the son of Jesse and the father of Nathan and King Solomon.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 23:1-2:

     David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

   • 2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power‎^[2], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

     Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.

4. A surname originating as a patronymic common in Wales, in honor of the ancient Saint David of Wales.
5. (rare) A female given name, often combined with a feminine middle name (e.g. David Ann).
6. A place name:
   1. A city, the capital of Chiriquí province, Panama.
   2. A former unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
   4. A barangay of Mangaldan, Pangasinan, Philippines.
   5. A barangay of San Jose, Tarlac, Philippines.

• (pet forms): Dave, Davey, Davie, Davy; Davo (Australian)
• (feminine equivalent): Davina

David (plural Davids)

1. (figuratively) A person or group considered unlikely to prevail; an underdog.

   Synonym: little man

   Coordinate term: Goliath

   • 1909, William Denison Lyman, The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce‎^[3], G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 185:

     But the essential forces were the American immigrant, the American missionary, the Declaration of Independence, and the ox-team. Those were the champions of America. They were the Davids against the Goliaths of British monopoly.

   • 1997, Nathan Gardels, editor, The Changing Global Order: World Leaders Reflect‎^[4], Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, page 191:

     Will Microsoft rule the alternative to the mass media, the Net? Or, as always before in history, will local Davids arise to challenge the global Goliaths?

   • 2001, Adam Harmes, Unseen Power‎^[5], Stoddart Publishing, →ISBN, page 144:

     In their quest for a villain, the media were assisted by politicians who wanted to avoid being put into the slot themselves. On the contrary, they wanted to be portrayed as the underdogs, the democratic Davids fighting the valiant but ultimately hopeless battle against the financial Goliaths.

   • 2015, Porter Erisman, Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business‎^[6], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 104:

     Our strategy to engage eBay in a war of words had created a lot of media buzz within China. Positioning ourselves as a local David fighting the US Goliath, we intended to educate the market about e-commerce and attract people to Taobao to give consumer e-commerce a chance.

David m

1. a male given name

• IPA^(key): (Central) [dəˈβit]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [dəˈvit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [daˈvit]
• Rhymes: -it

David m

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David

From English David, from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), from the Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”). Also from Spanish David.

• Hyphenation: Da‧vid

David

1. a male given name from English or Spanish
2. (biblical) David

• IPA^(key): [ˈdavɪt]

David m anim

1. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David

• Rhymes: -id

David

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name

• (surname): Davidsen

• Davied

Ultimately from Latin David, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Biblical Hebrew דָּוִד.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.vɪt/

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• Hyphenation: Da‧vid

David m

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David
3. a surname originating as a patronymic

• Davidisch

• (pet forms): Daaf, Daav
• (surnames): Davids

• Afrikaans: Dawid

• IPA^(key): /da.vid/, (archaic or regional) /da.vi/

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David m

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David
3. a surname originating as a patronymic

• étoile de David

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaːvɪt/ (normal)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈdäːvɪt] (most regions)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈdäːvit] (Bavaria, Austria)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdaːˌviːt/ (some speakers in the very north of Germany)

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• Hyphenation: Da‧vid

David m (proper noun, strong, genitive Davids)

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David

• Davidstern m (“Star of David”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɒvid]
• Hyphenation: Da‧vid
• Rhymes: -id

David

1. David

Borrowed from Latin Dāvīd, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Hebrew דָּוִד (davíd).

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.vid/^[1]
• Rhymes: -avid
• Hyphenation: Dà‧vid

David m

1. a male given name, variant of Davide

Borrowed from English David.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.vid/, /ˈde.vid/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛvid, -evid

David m

1. a male given name in English

• IPA^(key): /dəˈbid/ [dəˈbiːd]
• Hyphenation: Da‧vid

Borrowed from Spanish David.

Davíd

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Spanish

Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

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Davíd

1. a common surname

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew דּוד.

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [da˧˧.vit̚˧˧]
• Hyphenation: Da‧vid

David

1. David (biblical character)
   • 2005, “2 Samuela 14:19 [2 Samuel 14:19]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[7], page 879:

     David gi nyang꞉ ri «He꞉ mooˮ zooˮ nang ri Yoab koid nhang꞉ anghoid laˮ» ga꞉ myid꞉ bye꞉.

     David asked her: «Joab made you do this deed, did he not?»

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Biblical Hebrew דָּוִד (Davíd).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdaː.wiːd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪aː.vid̪]

Dāvīd m (indeclinable) and Dāvīd m sg (genitive Dāvīdis); third declension

1. David
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     Et iuravit rursum Davidi.

     And he swore again to David.

Normally indeclinable, but third declension forms occasionally occur.

• Dāvīdius
• Dāvīdicus

“David” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Borrowed from Italian Davide, from Latin David, from Ancient Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), from Hebrew דָּוִד (davíd). The alternative pronunciation from English David, from the same source.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.vɪt/ (traditional; still always for the King David)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛj.vɪt/ (predominantly as a contemporary name)

David m

1. David (given name)

David

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David

Ultimately from Hebrew דּוד. Doublet of Davi and Deivid.

• Hyphenation: Da‧vid

David m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English David
2. (biblical) David (king of Judah)

• davídico

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Давꙑдъ (Davydŭ), from Koine Greek Δαυίδ (Dauíd), Δαβίδ (Dabíd), from Biblical Hebrew דּוד (Dāwîḏ, literally “beloved”).

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David m

1. a village in Văleni, Neamț County, Romania
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English David
3. a surname

• IPA^(key): /daˈbid/ [d̪aˈβ̞ið̞]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: Da‧vid

David m

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David

• “David”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Vulgate Latin David, ultimately of Hebrew origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in runes around 1200.

David

1. The letter "D" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

David c (genitive Davids)

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English David

• (surnames) Davidsson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [8] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 51 009 males with the given name David living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Borrowed from English David.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdejvid/ [ˈd̪eɪ̯.vɪd̪̚]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈdejbid/ [ˈd̪eɪ̯.bɪd̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ejvid, (with nativization) -ejbid
• Syllabification: Da‧vid

David (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜌ᜔ᜊᜒᜇ᜔)

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from English

Borrowed from Spanish David.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈvid/ [d̪ɐˈvɪd̪̚]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /daˈbid/ [d̪ɐˈbɪd̪̚]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: Da‧vid

Davíd (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜊᜒᜇ᜔)

1. (biblical) David
2. a male given name from Spanish

Borrowed from Kapampangan David. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈvid/ [d̪ɐˈvɪd̪̚]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /daˈbid/ [d̪ɐˈbɪd̪̚]
• Rhymes: -id
• Syllabification: Da‧vid

Davíd (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜊᜒᜇ᜔)

1. a surname in Kapampangan