GUARDIAN ANGEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guardian angel mean? 

• GUARDIAN ANGEL (noun)
  The noun GUARDIAN ANGEL has 1 sense:

1. an angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual

  Familiarity information: GUARDIAN ANGEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUARDIAN ANGEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

guardian angel; guardian spirit

Hypernyms ("guardian angel" is a kind of...):

angel (spiritual being attendant upon God)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guardian angel"):

genius loci (the guardian spirit of a place)

eudaemon; eudemon; good spirit (a benevolent spirit)

 Context examples 

Surely my guardian angel was very near me then, for some instinct of fear, or it may have been some faint rustle of leaves, made me glance upwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“When you were sitting by her,” said I, “you seemed to be no less her guardian angel than mine; and you seem so now, Agnes.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion—remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved—for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He had spoken earnestly, mildly: his look was not, indeed, that of a lover beholding his mistress, but it was that of a pastor recalling his wandering sheep—or better, of a guardian angel watching the soul for which he is responsible.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In 2020, Jupiter in this house will bring your guardian angel—not the kind of angel you see in Disney cartoons, but a real-life VIP who will notice your good work and want to go out on a limb to help you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life—the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars and ready to envelop me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)