angel

Meanings

An incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity, or other divine entity, often depicted in art as a youthful winged figure in flowing robes.
One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.
Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic church.
An English gold coin, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, circulated between the 15th and 17th centuries, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
An angel investor.
The person who funds a show.
A person who has Angelman syndrome.

From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Anglo-Norman angele, angle and Old English ænġel, enġel, enċġel, from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ or יהוה מַלְאָךְ.
Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.

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