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Grammar : Noun
Spell : cher-uh b
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɛr əb


Définition of cherub

Origin :
  • late 14c. as an order of angels, from Late Latin cherub, from Greek cheroub, from Hebrew kerubh (plural kerubhim) "winged angel," perhaps related to Akkadian karubu "to bless," karibu "one who blesses," an epithet of the bull-colossus. Old English had cerubin, from the Greek plural.
  • The cherubim, a common feature of ancient Near Eastern mythology, are not to be confused with the round-cheeked darlings of Renaissance iconography. The root of the terms either means "hybrid" or, by an inversion of consonants, "mount," "steed," and they are winged beasts, probably of awesome aspect, on which the sky god of the old Canaanite myths and of the poetry of Psalms goes riding through the air. [Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses," 2004, commentary on Gen. iii:24]
  • noun angel
Example sentences :
  • The Cherub waited for an explanation of these contradictory remarks.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • The Cherub pursed his fat round lips in a soft whistle of enlightenment.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Go to bed and sleep like the cherub you are, while I expiate here with my pipe.
  • Extract from : « Blue-grass and Broadway » by Maria Thompson Daviess
  • A decided case of 'up aloft': he looks quite the cherub, does he not?
  • Extract from : « Frank Fairlegh » by Frank E. Smedley
  • How vainly I have sought her,—and thee, my cherub little one!
  • Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
  • "I wish you could have heard it, girls" said the cherub regretfully.
  • Extract from : « Jill the Reckless » by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • “Only that in this case Eden guards the cherub,” observed Henderson, parenthetically.
  • Extract from : « St. Winifred's » by Frederic W. Farrar
  • Taking no account of the Cherub, the disparity of force is sufficiently obvious.
  • Extract from : « Admiral Farragut » by A. T. Mahan
  • The Cherub also was forced to leave her first position and join the Phœbe.
  • Extract from : « Admiral Farragut » by A. T. Mahan

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