Cherub vs. Archangel: What's the Difference?

A winged celestial being.

A high-ranking angel.

Cherubim(Christianity) The second of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

Archangels The eighth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.

A putto.

A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).

A person, especially a child, with an innocent or chubby face.

Synonym of angelica

(biblical) A winged creature attending God, described by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (short=yes) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts.

A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.

An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body.

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

(figuratively) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent.

An angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy

A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.

A biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally

A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.

One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

A beautiful child; - so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.

A sweet innocent baby

An angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child