Word.ws English Dictionary

shoulder angel

shoulder angel noun: an angel representing a person's conscience in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one shoulder while a shoulder devil occupies the other.

shoulder angel: an angel representing a person's conscience in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one...
Image: Charles Clarence Beck, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

shoulder angel (plural shoulder angels)

  1. An angel representing a person's conscience in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one shoulder while a shoulder devil occupies the other.

Antonyms of shoulder angel

Forms of shoulder angel

pluralshoulder angels

Questions about shoulder angel

What does shoulder angel mean?
Shoulder angel means an angel representing a person's conscience in works of fiction, portrayed as sitting on one shoulder while a shoulder devil occupies the other.
What part of speech is shoulder angel?
Shoulder angel is a noun.
What is the plural of shoulder angel?
The plural of shoulder angel is shoulder angels.

Words near shoulder angel in the dictionary

  1. shoulde
  2. shoulded
  3. shoulded on
  4. shoulden
  5. shoulder
  6. shoulder angel
  7. shoulder angels
  8. shoulder arms
  9. shoulder bag
  10. shoulder bags
  11. shoulder belt

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shoulder angel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shoulder angel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shoulder_angel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.