demon
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demon¹
- /ˈdiː.mən/
Sounds like daemon · Rhymes with -iːmən
Where it comes from
From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Displaced native Old English sċucca (“evil spirit”) and Old English þyrs (“ogre or monster”). Doublet of daimon; also more distantly a doublet or piecewise doublet of time.
noun demons · daimon · daemon · dæmon
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil. So what does the Gospel of Judas really say? It says that Judas is a specific demon called the "Thirteenth." In certain Gnostic traditions, this is the given name of the king of demons - an entity known as Ialdabaoth who lives in the 13th realm above the earth. Judas is his human alter ego, his unde
- A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- 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. The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
- A person's fears or anxieties. After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse. Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable.
- 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. Let the orders now be that each demon is to stop all molecules from crossing his area in either direction except 100 coming from A, arbitrarily chosen to be let pass into B, and a greater number, having among them less energy but equal momentum, to cross from B to A.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. He’s a demon at the card tables.
- A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US. ‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Similar: genius, tutelary deity, barghest, bogie, bogeyman, boggard, bogle, cacodemon, daeva, devil, evil genius, fiend, flibbertigibbet, ghoul, goblin, imp, kobold, nis, spook, troll
demon²
- /ˈdiː.mən/
Sounds like daemon · Rhymes with -iːmən
noun demons
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Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
Similar: DEMon, Pines' Demon, Pines Demon, Pines' demon, Pines demon, Pines's demon, Pines's Demon
Similar: barghest, bogie, bogeyman, boggard, bogle, cacodemon, daeva, devil, evil genius, fiend, flibbertigibbet, ghoul, goblin, imp, kobold, nis, spook, troll
demon³
- /ˈdiː.mən/
Sounds like daemon · Rhymes with -iːmən
Where it comes from
From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.
Demon⁴
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”).
Demon⁵
- /ˈdiː.mən/
Sounds like daemon · Rhymes with -iːmən
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).
proper noun
- A male given name from Ancient Greek. Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: devil, daimon, daemon, fiend, ogre, monster, satan, hell, witch, ghost, sorceress, haunted, warlock, jinni, freak, evil
noun
Similar: genius, tutelary deity, barghest, bogie, bogeyman, boggard, bogle, cacodemon, daeva, devil, evil genius, fiend, flibbertigibbet, ghoul, goblin, imp, kobold, nis, spook, troll
Translations
Every language
noun evil being
| Español | demonio, shapshico, mengue, demonche, demontre, diantre |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 데몬 demon, 악귀 akgwi, 요마 yoma, 악마 angma |
| 日本語 | 悪魔 akuma, 悪霊 akuryō, 鬼 oni, デーモン dēmon, 妖魔 yōma |
| 中文 | 邪魔 xiémó, 邪神 xiéshén, 魔鬼 móguǐ, 惡魔 /恶魔 èmó, 妖魔 yāomó |
| हिन्दी | दानव dānav, दैत्य daitya, देव dev, शैतान śaitān, राक्षस rākṣas, इब्लीस iblīs |
| Kiswahili | pepo |
| Français | démon |
| Deutsch | Dämon, Teufel |
| Italiano | demone, demonio |
| Ελληνικά | δαίμονας daímonas, δαιμόνιο daimónio |
| Română | demon |
| Русский | бес bes, де́мон démon, чёрт čort |
| Tiếng Việt | quỷ, ma quỷ, yêu ma, ma quái, ác quỷ |
| العربية | شَيْطَان šayṭān |
| עברית | שֵׁד shéd |
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