Archangel Definition

ärkānjəl
archangels
noun
archangels
A high-ranking angel.
American Heritage
A chief angel; angel of high rank.
Webster's New World
The eighth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
American Heritage
An angelica plant (Angelica archangelica)
Webster's New World

A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).

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Synonyms:
  • Angelica Archangelica
  • garden angelica
pronoun

A city in northwest Russia.

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Other Word Forms of Archangel

Noun

Singular:
archangel
Plural:
archangels

Origin of Archangel

  • From Old French archangle, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhangelos) from Ancient Greek prefix αρχ- (arch-) + ἄγγελος (angelos, “messenger”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French archangele from Late Latin archangelus from Late Greek arkhangelos Greek arkh- archi- Greek angelos angel

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Archangel Sentence Examples

  • The church also contains a solid silver statue of the archangel Michael, belonging to the confraternity of Neapolitan fishermen.

  • An examination of its lists of exports and imports will show that Holland receives from its colonies its spiceries, coffee, sugar, tobacco, indigo, cinnamon; from England and Belgium its manufactured goods and coals; petroleum, raw cotton and cereals from the United States; grain from the Baltic provinces, Archangel, and the ports of the Black Sea; timber from Norway and the basin of the Rhine, yarn from England, wine from France, hops from Bavaria and Alsace; ironore from Spain; while in its turn it sends its colonial wares to Germany, its agricultural produce to the London market, its fish to Belgium and Germany, and its cheese to France, Belgium and Hamburg, as well as England.

  • He returned to Archangel and brought his ship back in safety to England.

  • The Madonna is here depicted with various saints, the archangel Michael and St Maurice holding her mantle, which is extended over the kneeling Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, amid a profusion of rich festooning and other accessory.

  • Finland; the Karelians, in the E., who also occupy the lake regions of Olonets and Archangel, and have settlements in Novgorod and Tver; the Izhores, on the Neva and the S.E.

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