angel
Plural: angels
Noun
- spiritual being attendant upon God
- person of exceptional holiness
- invests in a theatrical production
- the highest waterfall; has more than one leap; flow varies seasonally
- An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
- One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
- A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.
- 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
- An angel investor.
- someone that funds
- The person who funds a show.
- A person who has Angelman syndrome.
Verb
Verb Forms: angeled, angeling, angels
- To provide financial backing for a venture.
- To support by donating money.
Examples
- Climb to angels sixty.
- He was hoping a lucky tile draw would ANGEL his comeback attempt.
- Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel.
Origin / Etymology
Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century
From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Old English anġel, ænġel, enġel, enċġel (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); and also in part from Anglo-Norman angele, angle, 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 יהוה מַלְאָךְ (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.
Scrabble Score: 6
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