Usually means: Divine messenger, spiritual, heavenly being.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. angel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. angel, angel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. angel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. angel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Angel, angel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Angel, angel: Wordnik
  7. angel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Angel, angel: Wiktionary
  9. angel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. angel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. angel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Angel, angel: Dictionary.com
  13. angel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. angel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Angel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. angel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Angel: Rhymezone
  19. angel, ngel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. angel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Angel: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. angel: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Angel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. angel: Free Dictionary
  25. angel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Angel, angel: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. angel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. angel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. angel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. angel-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. angel: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. angel: Finance-Glossary.com
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Angel (beings), angel: Legal dictionary
  7. Angel (beings), Angel: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Angel: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Angel (beings), angel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ANGEL: Acronym Finder
  3. angel: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. angel: Idioms
  6. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Angel: Easton Bible
  2. World English Bible Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. angel, angel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Angel: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ANGEL: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See angelic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (Abrahamic tradition) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.
noun:  A person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness.
noun:  (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
noun:  (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  (military slang, originally Royal Air Force) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.
noun:  (finance) An angel investor.
noun:  (theater) The person who funds a show.
verb:  (transitive, theater, slang) To support by donating money.
noun:  (informal) A person who has Angelman syndrome.
noun:  A male given name from Latin Angelus [in turn from Ancient Greek], used since 16th century; or an anglicized spelling of Ángel.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname or, rarely, as a patronymic.
noun:  A female given name from English of modern usage from the English noun angel.
noun:  (baseball) A player on the team the "Los Angeles Angels" or one of its predecessor "Angels" teams.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of angel. [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.]

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