Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com

Bel and the Dragon

American  

noun

  1. a book of the Apocrypha that is included as chapter 14 of Daniel in the Douay Bible.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Additions to Daniel.—The “additions to Daniel” are three in number: Susannah and the Elders, Bel and the Dragon, and The Song of the Three Children.

From Project Gutenberg

We learn from the book of Bel and the Dragon that in Babylon was kept a great, live serpent, which the people worshipped.

From Project Gutenberg

Daniel, with apocryphal additions—Song of the Three Children in the Furnace, History of Susannah, Story of Bel and the Dragon.

From Project Gutenberg

He shall have no more to do with Bel and the Dragon.

From Project Gutenberg

Such a long supper! but it must end sometime!—and then prayers, and then Dorcas had amused herself with Bel and the Dragon and Tobit awhile.

From Project Gutenberg

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.