angel

1. (Abrahamic religion) One of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues.

2. (figuratively) A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.Examples: "Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life."figuratively

3. (figuratively) A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.Examples: "Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel."figuratively

4. (figuratively) A person having qualities traditionally attributed to angels.figuratively

5. (obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.Examples: "Diſpaire thy Charme, / And let the Angell whom thou ſtill haſt ſeru’d / Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Vntimely ript."obsolete

6. (possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.Examples: "An apostle, or angel, or bishop, as he is now called, resided with a college of presbyters about him, in every considerable city of the Roman empire; to that angel or bishop, was committed the pastoral care of all the Christian in the city and its suburbs, extending as far on all sides as the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate extended;"; "[…] the head of that Church, in whose place I stand in my Church, and in whose place no other standeth (the elders and deacons have their place, but this belongeth to the angel or minister of the Church), and the Lord commendeth him for trying […]"; "The second or highest grade consists of the Angels or Bishops of Churches. Each Church has its Angel, who has (1) the higher supervision and care of all the flock, (2) the supervision and care of the Priests under him, and (3) the care of the Church itself."obsoletepossibly