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  1. noun A typically benevolent celestial being that acts as an intermediary between heaven and earth, especially in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism.
  2. noun A representation of such a being, especially in Christianity, conventionally in the image of a human figure with a halo and wings.
  3. noun Christianity The last of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology. From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English engel or Old French angele, both from Late Latin angelus, from Late Greek angelos, from Greek, messenger.

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  1. from Middle English (a) angel, angele, aungel, aungele, -elle, with soft or assibilated g (from Old French angele, angle, aingle, later abbrev. ange, modern F. ange = Provencal Spanish angel = Portuguese anjo = Italian angelo), mixed with (b) angel, angle, engel, engle, ængel, angle, with hard g, from Anglo-Saxon engel, plural englas, = Old Saxon engil = OFries. angel, engel = D. Low German engel = Old High German angil, engil, Middle High German G. engel = Icelandic engill = Swedish ängel, engel = Danish engel = Welsh angel = Gaelic Irish aingeal; from Late Latin angelus = Gothic (Moesogothic) aggilus = Old Bulgarian anŭgelŭ, angelŭ = Bohemian andel = Polish angiol, aniol (barred l) = Russian angelŭ, angel, from Greek ἂγγελος, in the Septuagint, New Testament, and eccles, writers an angel, in the Septuagint translating Hebrew mal'āk, messenger, in full mal'āk Yehōwāh, messenger of Jehovah; in class. Greek a messenger, one who tells or announces, connected with ἀγγέλλειν, bear a message, bring news, announce, report, whence comp. εὐάγγελος, bringing good news, εὐαγγέλιον, a reward for good news, good news, eccles, the gospel, evangel: see evangel. Cf. OPers. (in Greek) ἂγγαρος, a post-courier (see angariate); Sanskrit angiras, name of a legendary superhuman race.
 

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