angel
Meanings
- 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.
- A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.
- Someone who is pure or innocent.
- Someone who is kind or selfless.
- Someone, especially a woman or child, having youthful, wholesome, or radiant beauty.
- Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
- An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
- 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.
- An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
- An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
- someone that funds
- To support by donating money.
- A person who has Angelman syndrome; often capitalized.
- Alternative letter-case form of angel.
- A male given name from Latin Angelus [in turn from Ancient Greek], used since 16th century; or an anglicized spelling of Ángel.
- A surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname or, rarely, as a patronymic.
- A female given name from English of modern usage from the English noun angel.
- A player on the team the "Los Angeles Angels" or one of its predecessor "Angels" teams.
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Etymology
Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century From Middle English aungel, angel, from Old English anġel, either a modification of enġel after its etymon Latin angelus (through the intermediate of Proto-West Germanic *angil) or a reborrowing from the Latin, which is in turn from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman angele, angel, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or מַלְאָךְ יהוה (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”). Doublet of Angelus. Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.