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Neil

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //niːl//

A male given name from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Irish.

    So now that the Republicans have used the nuclear option to kill the poor filibuster to clear the way for the elevation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, we can lose perspective.

  2. 2

    A surname from Irish derived from the given name.

Etymology

Anglicized form of Goidelic/Irish Niall. Doublet of Niall.

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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).