Angel vs Angela - What's the difference?
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A divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity.
* Ben Jonson
(Abrahamic tradition) The lowest order of angels, below virtues.
A selfless person.
(military slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.
A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.
* Bible, Rev. ii. 1
(obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
(historical) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
(slang) To support by donating money.
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* 1996 Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes . HarperCollins. ISBN 0 00 649840 X Chapter I, page 5:
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Angela is a related term of angel.
As proper nouns the difference between angel and angela
is that angel is a given name derived from Ancient Greek used since 16th century, from Latin Angelus or an anglicized spelling of Ángel while Angela is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}.As a noun angel
is a divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity.As a verb angel
is to support by donating money.angel
English
(wikipedia angel)Alternative forms
* aynjel (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.
- You made me breakfast in bed, you little angel .
- Climb to angels sixty.
- Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
*Hyponyms
* cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throneDerived terms
* angel's dram * angelfish * angelic * angel of death * angel of mercy * angelology * archangel * guardian angel * fallen angelDescendants
* Hawaiian:Verb
(en verb)citation, page=88 , passage=You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.}}
Anagrams
* * * * ----angela
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.
- And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
- The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela', behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is '''Angela'''? I didn't know the Irish had any ' Angelas .