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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
archangel
noun
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▪ Aboard the Jeroboam is a madman who thinks that he is the archangel Gabriel.
▪ In the centre is the Saviour attended by two archangels.
▪ Leopoldo Castedo writes: The prestige of the armed archangel was and is still very great.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archangel

Archangel \Arch`an"gel\, n. [L. archangelus, Gr. 'archa`ggelos: cf. OF. archangel, F. archange. See Arch-, pref., and Angel.]

  1. A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
    --Milton.

  2. (Bot.) A term applied to several different species of plants ( Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
archangel

late 12c., from Old French archangel (12c.) or directly from Late Latin archangelus, from Greek arkhangelos "chief angel," from arkh- "chief, first" (see archon) + angelos (see angel). Replaced Old English heah encgel.

Wiktionary
archangel

n. 1 A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel). 2 In Christian angelology, an archangel is an angel from the third level or '''choir''' of angels, ranked above virtues and below powers.

WordNet
archangel
  1. n. an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy

  2. a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally [syn: garden angelica, Angelica Archangelica]

Wikipedia
Archangel

An archangel is an angel of high rank. Beings that are very similar to archangels are found in a number of religious traditions; but the word "archangel" itself is usually associated with the Abrahamic religions.

The word archangel is derived from the Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arch- + angel, literally chief angel).

Archangel (Harris novel)

Archangel is a novel by Robert Harris set in modern Russia. It was published in 1998, and adapted for television by the BBC in 2005.

Archangel (disambiguation)

An archangel is a higher-ranked angel.

Archangel may also refer to:

Archangel (Shinn novel)

Archangel is a 1997 science fiction novel by Sharon Shinn. It is the first book in the Samaria series of novels.

Archangel (film)

Archangel (1990) is the second feature film directed by Guy Maddin. The film fictionalizes, in a general sense, historical conflict related to the Bolshevik Revolution occurring in the Arkhangelsk (Archangel) region of Russia, a basic concept presented to Maddin by John Harvie. The film marks Maddin's first formal collaboration with co-screenwriter George Toles.

Maddin shot Archangel in black and white, on 16mm film, on a budget of $430,000. Maddin modeled the film on the style of a part-talkie, an early cinema genre. The "basic situation" of the film's story was "suggested by Henry Green's 1946 novel Back."

Archangel (Song)
Archangel (video game)

Archangel is a 2002 action role-playing video game which takes place in three different places, at three different epochs. It melts horror, science fiction, and adventure genres. It was developed by Metropolis Software and published by Fishtank Interactive (in the US) and JoWood Productions (in the UK) for the PC in 2002.

The player takes the role of Michael Travinsky, believed to be "the chosen one", who is sent on a holy mission. Armed with a magic sword, he must travel to three different worlds to stop the forces of evil. If he fails his mission, mankind is doomed forever.

Archangel (Two Steps from Hell album)

Archangel is the second public album by the group Two Steps From Hell, released in September 2011. It consists of 26 tracks written by composers Thomas J. Bergersen and Nick Phoenix. The album contains 14 tracks from the album Nero.

In the Summer Olympic Games of 2016 the second song of the album, Archangel, was used by the gold medal winner ( Russia) in Synchronized swimming at the Summer Olympics.

Archangel (film, 2005)

Archangel - adaptation of the eponymous novel by Robert Harris (1998), made by the BBC in 2005, the 3 Series. Archangel - in the film the city of Arkhangelsk.

Archangel (Soulfly album)

' Archangel 'is the tenth studio album from American groove metal band Soulfly. It was released on August 14, 2015 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment. It is the band's shortest album to date, running thirty-six and a half minutes. It is the band's last album to feature bassist Tony Campos, who left the band shortly after recording to join Fear Factory. With a peak position of number 130 on the Billboard 200, it is Soulfly's second-lowest charting album to date (behind 2005's Dark Ages, which peaked at number 155). The statistic is common with the decreasing number of album sales worldwide in all genres of music, as digital releases have taken over the market. The ensuing "We Sold Our Souls To Metal" Tour to promote Archangel's release featured Soulfly playing as many as 7 songs from the album live each night, which is the first time since the Primitive Tour that the band has played the majority of a new album live.

Usage examples of "archangel".

What the angelico does is--sing, and hear petitions that are not brought to the Archangel directly, and--and be spouse to the Archangel.

Laveau stepped back into the well-furnished apartment, waving Argent and Archangel in behind her.

Esperson had wanted to risk the belt, maneuvering into it slowly, and mooring Archangel to the biggest satelloid near a twenty-hour orbit so as to stay with the natural drift of the debris.

Opposite the door, upon a flame-encompassed throne sat the Evil One with the lost archangels around him, seated on benches of terrible fire, according to the rank they formerly bore in the region of light - the lovely whelps - it would only be a waste of words to attempt to describe how atrociously ugly they were, and the longer I gazed upon them, sevenfold more frightful did they become.

The night that assassins had stalked him, Leo had seen her and her father wreathed in lights, invoking the archangels to preserve him.

The Archangel Alleluia sat in one of the locked, soundproofed music rooms that lined the lower level of the Eyrie, and wondered why this was always the setting when she received bad news.

And if she, the Archangel Alleluia, did not sing a mass with the son of Jeremiah at her side, the same thing could happen again this spring--the same thing or worse.

Some writers of ability and eminence have tried to maintain that the Johannean conception of Satan was of some exalted archangel who apostatized from the law of God and fell from heaven into the abyss of night, sin, and woe.

Then the lost Archangel and his counsellors are hurled into the Bottomless Pit, and the Angel takes the Bard up to the vault of Hell where he has full view of a three-faced ogress, Sin, who would make of heaven, a hell, and thence departing, a heaven of hell.

Tommy Hoylake drove up from his home in Berkshire to ride Pease Pudding, and we put Andy on Archangel and a taciturn lad called Faddy on the chestnut Subito.

Archangel and Pease Pudding ran the whole gallop stride for stride and finished together.

Archangel went beautifully, considering the Guineas was nearly six weeks away, and Faddy in his high pitched finicky voice said Subito had only been a pound or two behind Pease Pudding last year in his opinion, and he could have been nearer to him if he had really tried.

Thirdly, around this infernal sea a vast spherical arch will hang, a thousand miles thick, a massive and unbroken shell, through which there are no spiracles, and whose external surface, beautiful beyond conception, becomes the heaven of the redeemed, where Christ himself, perfect man as well as perfect God, fixes his residence and establishes the local sovereignty of the Universal Archangel.

In times of which only the chronicles could tell, the star-crowned Virgin on its tower used to smile, as a mother, from out her golden mantle, deep, deep down upon the pious red rooves and the only companions of her graciousness were the doves which used to nest in the gargoyles of the water-spouts and the bells which were called after the four archangels and of which Saint Michael was the most magnificent.

The road was unhedged, running between wide strips of rank grass in which wood garlic, foxgloves, columbine and yellow archangel grew.