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Meaning of SERAPH

Pronunciation:  'seruf

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ser"aph\, n.; pl. E. {Seraphs}, Heb. {Seraphim}. [Heb.
ser[=a]phim, pl.]
One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs
of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is
represented as one of a class of angels. --Isa. vi. 2.
      As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the
      rapt seraph that adores and burns.       --Pope.
{Seraph moth} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
   geometrid moths of the genus {Lobophora}, having the hind
   wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.
 

 

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