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Archangel

//ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪn.d͡ʒəl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Dated form of Arkhangelsk: a city in northwestern Russia. alt-of, dated

    "We bore her down to the boat and aboard our vessel, and then getting up anchor we sailed away across the White Sea until the spires of Archangel sank down behind the horizon."

Noun
  1. 1
    A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).
  2. 2
    an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of angelica (“the garden herb”).
  4. 4
    a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English archangel, from Old French archangele, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos) from Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- (arkhi-) + ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). By surface analysis, arch- + angel.

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