1. David - Noun
2. David - Proper noun
(Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)
patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600)
Source: WordNetI've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. Anthony Stewart Head
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. Marvin Minsky
I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest. Boris Johnson
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. Oliver Goldsmith
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. Adam Smith
When David grew old he sang pious psalms. German Proverb