RAPHAEL

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• RAPHAEL (noun)
  The noun RAPHAEL has 2 senses:

1. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)

2. an archangel of the Hebrew tradition

  Familiarity information: RAPHAEL used as a noun is rare.

• RAPHAEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Raffaello Santi; Raffaello Sanzio; Raphael

Instance hypernyms:

old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An archangel of the Hebrew tradition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Raphael" is a kind of...):

archangel (an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy)

 Context examples 

Raphael's face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Little Raphael, as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I enjoyed the trips to Hampton Court and the Kensington Museum more than anything else, for at Hampton I saw Raphael's cartoons, and at the Museum, rooms full of pictures by Turner, Lawrence, Reynolds, Hogarth, and the other great creatures.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)