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cherubs

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cherubs.

Editorial note

Before plastic funkos it was little ceramic cherubs grandma was filling all the available shelving with.

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Quick take

(aviation, military, slang) A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(aviation, military, slang) A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cherubs.

noun

(aviation, military, slang) A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.

Example sentences

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Before plastic funkos it was little ceramic cherubs grandma was filling all the available shelving with.

2

Hmm, but in the Exodus, the ark of the covenant was glided in gold with cherubs on the four corners.

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And they can illuminate the cover titles in calligraphy with little illustrations of cherubs and such.

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But she also had an impressive wind-up toy collection, a collection of cherubs, a collection of supposedly collectable porcelain dolls from QVC.

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Before those underpants were painted on, the bare bums of Michaelangelo's cherubs were clearly going to cause the collapse of European civilisation.

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The animated Elizabeth Holmes cherubs have a real 90s internet feel to them.

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We aren't all mobsters and we don't all have giant busts of the Pope and cherubs in our houses.

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Wealthier adults became smitten with images of cute white kids and chubby-cheeked cherubs.

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Christianity has angels, devils, cherubs, the Nephilim, and other supernatural entities who are not worshiped.

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Yeah, I went in expecting tulip bubbles and housing bubbles and got pictures of cherubs.

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All those cherubs painted on walls probably have real faces.

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Buxom cherubs --- sounds like great startup web site potential!

Quote examples

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I found the book "Cherubs, Chattels, Changelings" to be a good treatment of the difference.

2

Obviously the real answer is "AI doesn't understand what 'Jesus' or 'feet' actually mean." But I did a quick Google Images search of Jesus washing feet, and noticed that a lot of Western art depicts Jesus in a very humble manner: plain clothing, face turned towards the ground, and typically without adornments like halos, cherubs, etc.

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> Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim For what it's worth, the few times I've seen the plural of cherub in the English language (mostly in song lyrics), it was always "cherubs", not "cherubim".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use cherubs in a sentence?

Before plastic funkos it was little ceramic cherubs grandma was filling all the available shelving with.

What does cherubs mean?

(aviation, military, slang) A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.

What part of speech is cherubs?

cherubs is commonly used as noun.