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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
angel/ˈeɪnʤl/
▶noun
  • 1 a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant or messenger of God, conventionally represented as being of human form with wings.
  • 2 a person of great beauty, kindness, or virtue.
  • 3 informal (especially in the theatre) a financial backer.
  • 4 (angels) informal (among pilots) used with a numeral to indicate an aircraft's altitude in thousands of feet: we rendezvous at angels nine.
  • 5 informal an unexplained radar signal.
  • 6 a former English coin bearing the figure of the archangel Michael killing a dragon.
– phrases
on the side of the angels on the side of what is right.
– origin OE engel, ult. via eccles. L. from Gk angelos ‘messenger’.



'angel' also found in these Oxford entries:
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from the Angel (Hans Christian Andersen)
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my angel [to address humans?]
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Who/whom: ... Angel of Music, <?> her father had promised would come to her.
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