angel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   spiritual being attendant upon God

   And then shall He send his angels.

2. 2
   noun

   an investor in an enterprise, often investing at an early stage

   This production was only made possible with the support of our angels.

3. 3
   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.

   The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.

4. 4
   noun

   A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.

   Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life.

5. 5
   noun

   Attendant spirit; genius; demon.

   Diſpaire thy Charme, / And let the Angell whom thou ſtill haſt ſeru’d / Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Vntimely ript.

6. 6
   noun

   An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.

   An apostle, or angel, or bishop, as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that angel or bishop, was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, extending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended;

7. 7
   noun

   An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.

   Climb to angels sixty.

8. 8
   noun

   someone that funds

   “Latent” angels are defined as those who have not invested capital in the past 12 months, although they likely have invested knowledge in the process of reviewing potential investments.

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, “messeng…