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DAEMON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is part mortal and part god
Synonyms:
daemon; demigod
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("daemon" is a kind of...):
deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daemon"):
Adonis ((Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An evil supernatural being
Synonyms:
daemon; daimon; demon; devil; fiend
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("daemon" is a kind of...):
evil spirit (a spirit tending to cause harm)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daemon"):
incubus (a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women)
succuba; succubus (a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men)
dibbuk; dybbuk ((Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior)
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