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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
angelus is a noun meaning "the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited
a prayer said 3 times a day by Roman Catholics in memory of the Annunciation
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for angelus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.