angel /ānˈjəl/

1. A divine messenger
2. A ministering spirit
3. An attendant or guardian spirit
4. A person possessing the qualities attributed to these, ie gentleness, purity, etc
5. A dead person regarded as received into heaven
6. Someone supposed to have a special commission, such as the head of the Church in the Bible, Revelation 2 and 3
7. A messenger generally (poetic)
8. A former English coin bearing the figure of an angel
9. A radar echo of unknown origin
10. A financial backer or adviser, esp one who finances theatrical ventures (informal)
11. A rich person who is an easy victim for those in search of money (informal)
12. A nurse (informal)
13. A hell's angel

ānˈgelhood noun

angelic /an-jelˈik/ or angelˈical adjective

angelˈically adverb

āngelolˈatry noun

Angel-worship

āngelolˈogy noun

Doctrine regarding angels

āngelophˈany noun

The manifestation of an angel to a human

anˈgel-cake or anˈgel-food-cake noun

A light cake made of flour, sugar and egg white

angel dust noun (informal)

The drug phencyclidine, a hallucinogen

anˈgelfish noun

1. A kind of shark (genus Squatina), with large winglike pectoral fins (also anˈgelshark)
2. A tropical American river-fish (genus Pterophyllum) of the family Cichlidae, with a much-compressed, almost circular body but crescent-shaped owing to the long fin filaments, the whole banded with changing black vertical stripes
3. Applied also to Pomacanthus and several other fishes of the Chaetodontidae

angel hair noun

Pasta shaped in very thin strips

angel shot noun (historical)

Cannonballs linked by a chain, intended to destroy ships' rigging

angels on horseback plural noun

Oysters and bacon on toast

angels' share noun

The amount of a spirit lost in the cask through evaporation

anˈgel-water noun

A perfumed liquid, at first made largely from angelica, then from ambergris, rose-water, orange-flower water, etc

• glories
• glorification
• glorifications
• glorified
• glorifies
• glorify
• glorifying
• gloriole
• glorioles
• gloriosa
• gloriosas
• glorious
• gloriously
• gloriousness
• gloriousnesses
• Glorious Twelfth
• glory
• glory be
• glory box
• glory boxes
• glory hole
• glory holes
• glorying
• glory of the snow
• glory-pea