1. Samuel - Noun
2. Samuel - Proper noun
(Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
Source: WordNetI don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays. Harold Pinter
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages. Robertson Davies
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers. Immanuel Velikovsky
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. Fred Allen
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. Edward Albee
Samuel Adams had not inherited poverty nor had he, after all, exactly embraced it, but had as it were naturally drifted into it through indifference to worldly gain, the indifference which men of single and fixed purpose have for all irrelevant matters. Carl L. Becker