Definitions for Angles
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1. Angles

   The Angles (Old English: Ængle, Engle; Latin: Angli) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several kingdoms of the Heptarchy in Anglo-Saxon England. Their name is the root of the name England ("land of Ængle"). According to Tacitus, writing around 100 AD, a people known as Angles (Anglii) lived east of the Langobards and Semnones, who lived near the Elbe river.

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1. Angles

   an ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc

2. Etymology: [L. Angli. See Anglican.]

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1. Angles

   The Angles were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Britain in the post-Roman period. They founded several of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England. The name comes from the district of Angeln, an area located on the Baltic shore of what is now Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.

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1. Angles

   ang′glz, n.pl. the Low German stock that settled in Northumbria, Mercia, and East Anglia.

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1. Angles

   a German tribe from Sleswig who invaded Britain in the 5th century and gave name to England.

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1. angles

   An ancient German tribe from which England derives its name. They occupied a narrow district in the south of Sleswick, whence some of them passed over in the 5th century, in conjunction with other Saxon tribes, into Britain, where they conquered the native Britons, and established the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. See Heptarchy.

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1. anglesnoun

   Plural noun and verb form of the word angle.

   The ruler was at right angles to the margin on the document if you needed to move or change it.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 14, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ANGLES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Angles is ranked #27625 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Angles surname appeared 871 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Angles.
   
   69.8% or 608 total occurrences were White.
   26% or 227 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.1% or 19 total occurrences were Asian.
   1% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for Angles »

1. gleans

2. angels

3. gansel

How to pronounce Angles?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Angles in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Angles in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Angles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Angles in a Sentence

1. Matthew Henman:

   The group is resorting more and more to mass-casualty violence as it comes under heavy pressure from multiple angles.

2. Cicero:

   The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

3. Navneet Marwah:

   Prima facie, there seems to be no problem, but we are going to investigate once again. There are a few different angles now.

4. Stephanie Murphy:

   We're triangulating basically from a lot of different angles and we are getting a fulsome picture of what happened in the run-up to and on the day of January 6.

5. Roderick Sawyer:

   We have a public safety crisis that I won’t claim is entirely the fault of our current mayor, though she certainly hasn’t helped, we need to address public safety and crime from a wide variety of angles. We have a level of crime anxiety that affects everyone, even those who don’t live in our most crime-affected areas.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Angles
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Angles
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Angles
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Angles
6. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html