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El   /ɛl/   Listen
El

noun
1.
Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).  Synonyms: ALT, altitude, elevation.
2.
A railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level.  Synonyms: elevated, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway.



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"El" Quotes from Famous Books



... God, but a soul resting in sin can have no intimate union with God; there can be no intimate union between light and darkness, between sanctity and sin, between good and evil; in a word, between Christ and Belial. Quae participatio, quae societas lucis ad tenebras? Quae conventio Christi el Belial? ...
— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... Southern pine knot danced on my page, I was gone on the wings of fancy thousands of miles away; and went with discoverers or explorers up and down the passages and halls and staircases and chambers, to which the entrance is from Biban el Malook. I wandered over the empty sarcophagi; held my breath at the pit's sides; and was never tired of going over the scenes and sculptures done in such brilliant colours upon those white walls. Once in ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell

... Birkadeen, and from there continue their journey to other villages, Bermandries, and El-Biar, at each of which Mustapha has something odd to show them that will ever remain a ...
— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne

... he. "No, no! Nothing like that. Old married man, steady as a church. Uh-huh! Two years and a half in the harness. You ought to see the happy hacienda we call home down there. Say, it's forty-eight long miles out of Buenos Ayres. Can you picture that! El Placida's the name of the cute little burg. It looks it. They don't make 'em ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford

... 'The many wonderful things which people have related unto me of your way of medicinement makes me nothing doubt at all of its efficacy; and all that I have to say unto you is comprehended in the Spanish proverb, Hagase el milagro y hagalo Mahoma—Let the miracle be done, though ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay


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