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angel
/ˈeɪndʒəl/
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What does angel mean?
noun
- An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a youthful, winged figure in flowing robes.
- One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
- (figuratively) Someone who is pure or innocent.
More meanings (23)
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who is kind or selfless.
- (figuratively) Someone, especially a woman or child, having youthful, wholesome, or radiant beauty.
- (slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
- An angel investor.
- The person who funds a show.
- (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized.
- Alternative letter-case form of angel.
- A player on the team the "Los Angeles Angels" or one of its predecessor "Angels" teams.
- (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
- (obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
- (historical) An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
- (dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
verb
- (slang) To support by donating money.
proper noun
- A male given name
- A male given name, variant of Angelo
- A male given name from Latin Angelus [in turn from Ancient Greek], used since 16th century
- A male given name from Spanish Ángel, as an anglicization
- A female given name, variant of Angela
- A female given name from English, of modern usage, from the English noun angel.
- A surname
- A surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname
- A surname originating as a patronymic
- A surname transferred from the given name
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈeɪndʒəl/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Not so, my lord, your ill angel is light, but I hope he that looks upon me will take me without weighing.
No one ever could wipe from his heart the flood of holy adoration that had welled with the coming of his Angel.
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His conscience was soothed by the enfolding wing of secrecy, which seemed just then like an angel sent down for his relief.
“Mamma, you believe, don’t you, that Topsy could become an angel, as well as any of us, if she were a Christian?”
And the angel answered and said that she should have no dread of him, for he was very messenger of Jesu Christ.