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How to pronounce “cherub”
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Pronunciation guide for cherub
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of cherub with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Real speech example
- Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave
as "You Never Can Tell" blasts out of every cherub's
- Definition summary
- (biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
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How to pronounce cherub
Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave
as "You Never Can Tell" blasts out of every cherub's
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “cherub”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (biblical) A winged creature attending God and guarding his throne described as a being with four faces (man, lion, ox, and eagle), human hands, calf hooves, four wings, and many eyes. A description can be found in Ezekiel chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 10; similar to a lamassu (winged bull with a human torso) in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.
- (post-biblical) A winged angel, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim.
- In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.
- (figuratively) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.
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