Meaning

2 senses
  1. A boy or an unmarried young man

  2. (obsolete)A young squire or the attendant to a knight; a page

Origin

From Old French danzel and Italian donzello, both ultimately from Medieval Latin domicellu

From Old French danzel and Italian donzello, both ultimately from Medieval Latin domicellus (“young nobleman, squire”), a diminutive of Latin dominus (“master, lord”). Compare donzella.

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Forms

plural: donzels
Singulardonzel
Pluraldonzels

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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