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seraphims

seraphims is the plural of seraph.

seraphims is the plural of seraphim.

Meaning of seraph

Noun

seraph (plural seraphs or seraphim or (nonstandard) seraphims)

  1. A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal.
  2. (post-biblical) A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.
    • From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's1857 April 1, Herman Melville, chapter XXIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC

Meaning of seraphim

Noun

seraphim (plural seraphims)

  1. Any member of the species Lobophora halterata of geometrid moths.

Questions about seraphims

What is seraphims the plural of?
Seraphims is the plural of seraph.

Words near seraphims in the dictionary

  1. seraphicall
  2. seraphically
  3. seraphick
  4. seraphicness
  5. seraphim
  6. seraphims
  7. seraphin
  8. Seraphina
  9. seraphine
  10. seraphines
  11. seraphins

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