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• plural of angel.

angels

Cultural  

1. Spirits who live in heaven with God; also the devils of hell, who are angels fallen from goodness. In the Bible (see also Bible), angels are often sent to Earth, sometimes with a human appearance, to bring the messages of God to people, to guide and protect them, or to execute God's punishments. (See Abraham and Isaac, Annunciation, cherubim, Daniel in the lions' den, Gabriel, Jacob's ladder, Lot's wife, Lucifer, Michael, Passover (see also Passover), plagues of Egypt, Satan, and Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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angels Idioms  

1. see fools rush in where angels fear to tread; on the side of the angels.

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Even if one is coming, “of that day and that hour knoweth no man,” not even “the angels which are in heaven.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

I want Black angels to exist within the same spiritual realm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Children arrived naughty and finished like angels, full of ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

It is also where Abraham Lincoln, as the nation stood on the brink of Civil War, appealed to “the better angels of our nature.”

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Powerful angels, safe in heaven! they smile when sordid souls triumph, and feeble ones weep over their destruction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë