(n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
(n.) A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).
Example Sentences:
(1) Beautiful and ancient plants, such as spreading bellflower , could become extinct in some places through the escape of variegated yellow archangel from gardens.
(2) It is a problem brought from outside, from the EU," said Alexandre Galdava, an Orthodox priest at the Church of Archangel Michael in Tbilisi, who preaches that being gay is "a sexual choice based on debauchery".
(3) The Sun itself concluded: “We can’t just carry on with the status quo.” If the Archangel Gabriel came down from heaven and said decriminalising drugs would end war, banish poverty, reduce obesity and defeat child sex abuse, it would make no difference to a British cabinet.
(4) [Fuqua rolls up his sleeve to show a tattoo of the archangel Michael wielding his sword against the devil.]
(5) Lively accompaniment on the keyboard of the teeth To the soft refrains that Love sings in passionate hearts with Its archangel's voice to enchanting languidness!
(6) Archangel (£1.24) If you, like me, are a sucker for a decent dungeon-crawler, Archangel is well worth a look.
(7) Burial: Archangel As beautiful, moving and anthemic as dubstep, or indeed any genre of music, got in the noughties.
(8) Even back in the mid-60s, Walker wrote haunting songs such as Archangel, hinting at what was to come.
(9) To lead the Church of England, you should, ideally, combine the cunning of a Machiavelli with the majesty of the archangel Gabriel, but Welby has his advantages.He has advantages as an outsider.
Choir
Definition:
(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
(n.) The chancel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bono then serenaded the archbishop with the U2 hit Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, backed by the gospel choir.
(2) He has plans to assemble choirs of 17 people in Derry, China and Brazil, and 17 Tutsis and 17 Hutus in Rwanda.
(3) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(5) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(6) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
(7) Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing, so that really got everybody in the mind frame that we needed to be in to remind us that it’s fun but we’re here for a really serious reason.” Sandé added that the participants “sounded like a really powerful choir” when they sang the chorus.
(8) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
(10) I hate it when people are very different online than they are in person, and she’s very unified,” says Choire Sicha, her former editor at Gawker.
(11) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(12) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(13) He and his scraggy, kind old dog Gerard were based every evening at Leicester Square tube (exit 1), and for the past two years we met every week on my way home from choir.
(14) Those who refer to such gatherings as simply preaching to the choir miss the point.
(15) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
(16) My friends and I had formed the choir at university, calling ourselves Coro Bajocuerda, which means “against the ropes”; it’s how we felt living under Pinochet’s oppressive regime.
(17) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(18) This meant that if a parent was involved in flower arranging or choir rehearsals at church, they stood a better chance of securing their child a place.
(19) This humiliating practice was nicknamed "the choir".
(20) The subjects were 22 male and female junior and senior high school Caucasians in a central Kentucky church youth choir.