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cherub

C1 noun

cherub /ˈt͡ʃɛ.ɹəb/ nghĩa là thần hộ giá có cánh

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  1. thần hộ giá có cánh

    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.

    And he mounted a cherub and flew.

    The frieze included a cherub and a heart.

    Tom's cheeks are so round and rosy, like a little cherub!

  2. thiên thần cấp cao

    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.

    Over the arcke were the cherubyns off glory shadowynge the seate of grace.

    O Daughter of the Roſe, […] / Whoſe Face is Paradiſe, but fenc'd from Sin: / For God in either Eye has plac'd a Cherubin.

  3. thiên thần có cánh hình em bé

    In later texts changed to a winged baby; in artistic depictions sometimes a baby's head with wings but no body.

  4. người ngây thơ, thiên thần

    A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.

    figuratively

    Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd Cherubin.

    This fell whore of thine, / Hath in her more deſtruction then thy Sword, / For all her Cherubin looke.

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