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Manuel

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //mɑnˈwɛl//
  • //mænˈwɛl//

A male given name from Spanish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Spanish.

    But on a November morning in 2007, Manuel Jesus Cordova Soberanes and about 30 others from Magdalena were making a trek of their own, leaving town in search of opportunities they couldn’t find at home.

  2. 2

    A surname.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Manuel, short for Emanuel.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).