ARCHANGEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archangel mean? 

• ARCHANGEL (noun)
  The noun ARCHANGEL has 2 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ARCHANGEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHANGEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("archangel" is a kind of...):

angel (spiritual being attendant upon God)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "archangel"):

Gabriel ((Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God)

Michael ((Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews)

Raphael (an archangel of the Hebrew tradition)

Derivation:

archangelic; archangelical (of or relating to or resembling archangels)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Angelica Archangelica; archangel; garden angelica

Hypernyms ("archangel" is a kind of...):

angelica; angelique (any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels)

 Context examples 

So transformed and so ethereal was her expression, that Alleyne, in his loftiest dream of archangel or of seraph, had never pictured so sweet, so womanly, and yet so wise a face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All my speculations and hopes are as nothing, and like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The children are regular archangels, and I—well, I'm Jo, and never shall be anything else.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There you have a dim and mighty archangel fitly set before you!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Had He wished help, he said, He could have summoned legions of archangels from heaven, so what need had He of your poor bow and arrow?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)