a choir of angels
A group of angels, especially when depicted in art.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested, wiktionary-wordlist-only
- Also used for
- singers, serial killers
Subject · Supernatural → Divine beings
Angels
A group of angels can be called: choir · chorus · flight · host · pinhead
- Collective nouns
- 5
- Category
- Supernatural
- Subcategory
- Divine beings
- High confidence
- 4
- Book of St Albans
- 0
Collective nouns for angels
a chorus of angels
A group of angels or types of angels, e.g. seraphim.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- singers
a flight of angels
A group of angels or types of angels, e.g. seraphim, cherubim.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- birds, butterflies, doves, goshawks, hawks, herons, pigeons, stairs, swallows, cormorants
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a host of angels
A multitude; used in religious senses, as in “heavenly host (of angels)”.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- dictionary-entry, humor-source
- Also used for
- men, sparrows, locusts
- Also spelled
- Oost (1486), hoost (1486)
a pinhead of angels
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wiktionary-wordlist-only