angelan‧gel /ˈeɪndʒəl/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
the angel Gabriel2someone who is very kind, very good, or very beautiful: That little girl of theirs is an angel. Sam is no angel (=often behaves badly).3old-fashioned spoken used when asking someone to help you or when thanking someone for helping you: Thanks for mailing those letters, you’re an angel. Be an angel and get me my glasses, will you?4 (also business angel, angel investor) someone who gives new businesses money, often in exchange for a share of the company → guardian angel
WORD ORIGINangel
Origin:
Old English engel, from Late Latin angelus, from Greek angelos ‘bringer of messages, angel’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Bernie, you're an angel. What would I do without you?
- Goodnight, angel.
- Monsters resuscitate with the same alacrity as angels.
- Primo asks if she was playing an angel, like the angel children in the movie.
- Some one, possibly all angels, is smiling on them.
- The angels had told her to do things discreetly, not to make a big show of generosity or kindness.
- The Lord supplied nourishment at the hands of an angel.
WORD SETS
acolyte, nounafterlife, nounagnostic, nounangel, nounanimism, nounanoint, verbapostasy, nounapostate, nounarchangel, nounbelieve, verbbeliever, nounbell-ringer, nounbless, verbblessed, adjectiveblessing, nouncelebrant, nounChristian Science, nouncircumcise, verbcircumcision, nouncommunion, nounconfession, nounconvent, nounconversion, nounconvert, nouncoreligionist, nouncowl, nouncredo, nouncreed, nouncult, noundaemon, nounDecalogue, noundefrock, verbdeism, noundenomination, noundenominational, adjectivedevotee, noundevotion, noundevotional, adjectivedevout, adjectivedivine, adjectivedivinity, noundruid, nounfaith, nounfast day, nounfeast, nounfervour, nounfiesta, nounfollow, verbfrankincense, noungentile, noungod, noungoddess, noungrace, nounhabit, nounhair shirt, nounhallelujah, interjectionhallowed, adjectivehalo, nounheathen, adjectiveheathen, nounheaven, nounheavenly, adjectivehell, nounheresy, nounheretic, nounhermit, nounhermitage, nounheterodox, adjectivehigh priest, nounidol, nounidolatry, nounincarnation, nounincense, nouninfidel, nounintercession, nouninvocation, nouninvoke, verbirreligious, adjective-ism, suffixlayman, nounlaywoman, nounlibation, nounliturgical, adjectiveliturgy, nounmartyr, nounmartyr, verbmeditate, verbmeditation, nounmission, nounmonastery, nounmonastic, adjectivemonk, nounmonotheism, nounMoonie, nounMormon, nounMosaic, adjectivemystery play, nounmystic, nounmystical, adjectivemysticism, nounneophyte, nounnovice, nounnovitiate, nounnuminous, adjectivenun, nounnunnery, nounoblation, nounobservance, nounoffering, nounOlympian, adjectiveordain, verborder, nounorthodox, adjectiveotherworldly, adjectivepagan, adjectivepagan, nounpantheism, nounpantheon, nounParsee, nounpilgrim, nounpilgrimage, nounpious, adjectivepluralism, nounpolytheism, nounpractise, verbpray, verbprayer, nounprayer wheel, nounpreach, verbpreacher, nounpriest, nounpriestess, nounpriesthood, nounpriestly, adjectiveprophet, nounprophetess, nounpurify, verbRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRE, nounrecant, verbreincarnation, nounreligious, adjectivereligiously, adverbreliquary, nounrepent, verbretreat, nounrevelation, nounrevivalism, nounrite, nounritual, nounsacred, adjectivesacrifice, nounsacrifice, verbsacrificial, adjectivesanctify, verbsanctity, nounsanctuary, nounsanctum, nounsatanism, nounscripture, nounsect, nounsectarian, adjectiveservice, nounshaman, nounShinto, nounshrine, nounsin, nounsin, verbsinful, adjectivesinner, nounsoul, nounspirit, nounspiritual, adjectivespiritualism, nounspirituality, nounSr, sun god, nounsuppliant, nounsupplicant, nounsupplication, nounSupreme Being, nounTao, nounTaoism, nountemple, nountenet, nounthanksgiving, nountheism, nountheo-, prefixtheocracy, nountheologian, nountheological college, nountheology, nountonsure, nountranscendental, adjectivetranscendental meditation, nountransmigration, noununbelief, noununbeliever, nounungodly, adjectiveunholy, adjectiveunorthodox, adjectivevisionary, nounvoodoo, nounvotary, nounworship, verbworship, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Sam is no angel (=often behaves badly). Thanks for mailing those letters, you’re an angel. Be an angel and get me my glasses, will you?COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Sam is no angel (=often behaves badly). Thanks for mailing those letters, you’re an angel. Be an angel and get me my glasses, will you?· But the words masked the meaning and reality from the crowds of fallen men and angels who were awaiting the final denouement.· However, his elves are very like fallen angels, quite similar enough for confusion in the minds of fallible men.
· He has Carlos Alfonso, Giants bullpen coach / guardian angel.· My friend and his wife have always been convinced that they were in the company of guardian angels.· As they encounter the end, both Cage and Penn are embraced by guardian angels.
· We must raise a shrine to this little angel and bring him tributes.· Failing to communicate anything helpful to Marcello, the little Umbrian angel looks straight at the camera, and at us.· From Boots, a range of toiletries especially prepared for your little angel.
VERB· I Believe in Angels Belle believed in angels.· If one person believes in angels, everybody believes in angels.
· He simply could not find enough worthy small-growth companies and old fallen angels to absorb the cash.· In contrast to the heavenly city, the earthly city is occupied by the fallen angels and the impious.· At Wharton he examined fallen angels, the bonds of one-time blue-chip corporations now in trouble.· At the time fallen angels were the only junk bonds around.· There was a reason: Investors shunned fallen angels out of a fear of seeming imprudent.
· I looked towards the stone angel where the plump man had been standing, but there was no sign of him.· It was the official uniform of motherhood and she looked like the angel of terror and memory sweeping down from the sky.· In the firelight, he looked like a dark angel.· I doubt that she looked more angel than woman, as the smitten boy at New Minaden had thought.· Janine did look like an angel.· She thought, he looks like an angel.· In her white nightdress she looked like a golden angel.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► fools rush in (where angels fear to tread)► be on the side of the angels
1a spirit who is God’s servant in heaven, and who is often shown as a person dressed in white with wings: - A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger.
- Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger.
- Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
- I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
- She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
- Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers, dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
- They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
the angel Gabriel2someone who is very kind, very good, or very beautiful: That little girl of theirs is an angel. Sam is no angel (=often behaves badly).3old-fashioned spoken used when asking someone to help you or when thanking someone for helping you: Thanks for mailing those letters, you’re an angel. Be an angel and get me my glasses, will you?4 (also business angel, angel investor) someone who gives new businesses money, often in exchange for a share of the company → guardian angel