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demon
/ˈdimən/
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What does demon mean?
noun
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
- (figuratively) A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
More meanings (13)
noun
- A person's fears or anxieties.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- A supernatural being not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”).
- (historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
proper noun
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdimən/
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These precautions were kept up incessantly, and were followed by the most complete success, for not one demon came near us.
If such a project could succeed, instead of making a man of the laborer, it would make a demon of him.
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He said she was a little demon, she had done nothing but buck, and had bucked him off on the bridge!
And as the Demon made an end of his story, he fell back within the cavity of the tomb and laughed.
She roamed about, begging that the demon might be cast out of her, and her imprecations and blasphemies brought consternation wherever she went.