angel

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See also Angel, ángel, Ángel, and ängel

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Statue of an angel

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From Middle English aungel, from Old English engel, influenced by Old French angele, angle, both from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (angelos, messenger).

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angel (plural angels)

  1. A divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity.
  2. (biblical tradition) In Christian angelology, the lowest order of angels, below virtues.
  3. A selfless person.
    You made me breakfast in bed, you little angel.
  4. (military slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
    Climb to angels sixty.
  5. An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

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angel (third-person singular simple present angels, present participle angeling, simple past and past participle angeled)

  1. (transitive, slang) To support by donating money.
    • 1984, “American Magazine”, volume 118, page 88: 
      You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.

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angel m. (plural angels, diminutive angeltje)

  1. sting, dart (insect's organ)
  2. hook, fish-hook, angle

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angel

  1. First-person singular present of angeln.
  2. Imperative singular of angeln.

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angel

  1. angel

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angel m. (dual angela, plural angeli) animate

  1. angel

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angel m. (plural angylion or engyl

  1. (religion) angel

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angel

  1. What a bee uses to sting when it feels threatened: a sting, a stinger.
  2. A fishing rod.
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