Meaning and Origin
What does the name Angle mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Netherlands says the name Angle means "Angel in French" and is of French origin.
- A user from the United Kingdom says the name Angle means "Nice and helpful and life".
- The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook."Into the utmost angle of the world." [Spenser.]"To search the tenderest angles of the heart." [Milton.]
- [Geom]
- The figure made by. two lines which meet.
- The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
- The figure made by. two lines which meet.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment."Though but an angle reached him of the stone." [Dryden.]
- [Astrol] A name given to four of the twelve astrological “houses.”(Obs)
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod."Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there." [Shak.]"A fisher next his trembling angle bears." [Pope.]
Etymology: AS. angel
Etymology: F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor
- To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
- To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise."The hearts of all that he did angle for." [Shak.]
- A biased way of looking at or presenting something
- A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
- The space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
- Present with a bias
- Fish with a hook
- Seek indirectly
- To incline or bend from a vertical position
- Move or proceed at an angle ("he angled his way into the room")
Borrowed from Latin Anglus, in turn borrowed from a Germanic source (compare Old English Ængle/Engle (“Angle”)). Probably derived from the toponym Angle, related to *anguz "narrow, tight; tapering, angular", either indicating the "narrow" water (i.e. the Schlei estuary), or the "angular" shape of the peninsula.
Folk etymology linking the word to English angel or any antecedents is demonstrably false.
- (historical) A member of a Germanic tribe first mentioned by Tacitus, one of several which invaded Britain and merged to become the Anglo-Saxons.
Angle was also found in the following language(s): Latin and Mauritian Creole