a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God, conventionally represented in human form with wings and a long robe
God sent an angel to talk to Gideon
the Angel of Death
a person of exemplary conduct or virtue
I know I'm no angel
their parents think they are angels
a person who supports a business financially, typically one who invests private capital in a small or newly established enterprise
the longer it takes you to get your product into the marketplace, the longer it will be until the angels get their money back
a former English coin minted between the reigns of Edward IV and Charles I and bearing the figure of the archangel Michael killing a dragon
an aircraft's altitude (often used with a numeral indicating thousands of feet)
we rendezvous at angels nine
an unexplained radar echo