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Definition of Angel
Angel
A messenger.

A spiritual, celestial being, superior to man in power and intelligence. In the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers.

One of a class of "fallen angels;" an evil spirit; as, the devil and his angels.

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.

Attendant spirit; genius; demon.

An appellation given to a person supposed to be of angelic goodness or loveliness; a darling.

An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes



Angel Translations
angel in Danish is engel
angel in Dutch is engel
angel in Finnish is enkeli
angel in French is ange
angel in German is Engel
angel in Italian is angelo
angel in Latin is angelus
angel in Portuguese is anjo


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