Cherub

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A winged celestial being.
  • noun. The second of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A putto.
  • noun. A person, especially a child, with an innocent or chubby face.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of an order of angels variously represented at different times, but generally as winged spirits with a human countenance (often simply as winged heads), and distinguished by their knowledge from the seraphs, whose distinctive quality is love.
  • noun. A beautiful child: so called because in painting and sculpture cherubs are generally represented as beautiful winged children.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.
  • noun. A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.
  • noun. One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.
  • noun. A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A winged creature represented over 90 times in the Bible as attending on God, later seen as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim. First mention is in Genesis 3:24
  • noun. A statue or other depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child.
  • noun. A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly innocent or angelic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child
  • noun. a sweet innocent baby
  • Word Usage
    "We got off to a bad start; both sna and maglok were thoroughly disgusted with the Valentine Festival, but Smokey seemed to find it funny to shoot all of us with silver shafted arrows, which basically meant that we all had a goblin cherub following us around all the time."