Michael

Mi-chael · proper noun

imported

Definitions

proper noun

  1. 1.

    A male given name of Hebrew origin.

  2. 2.

    In Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition, one of the archangels.

Related words

See also: mike, name

Etymology

From Hebrew "Mikha'el" meaning "who is like God?" (a rhetorical question implying no one is like God). The name appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of an archangel. It entered English through Greek "Mikhael" and Latin "Michael."