daemon
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology.
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a god.
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a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.
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a demon.
noun
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a demigod
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the guardian spirit of a place or person
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a variant spelling of demon
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of daemon
< Latin daemōn a spirit, an evil spirit < Greek daímōn a deity, fate, fortune; compare daíesthai to distribute
Example Sentences
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Fagunwa, whose Forest of a Thousand Daemons was the first novel published in the Yoruba language.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2019
Daemons have always been one of the most irresistible features of Lyra’s universe.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2017
The game is essentially Risk but with Dark Eldar and Chaos Daemons.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2012
Daemons might touch each other, of course, or fight; but the prohibition against human-daemon contact went so deep that even in battle no warrior would touch an enemy’s daemon.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
He was much given to debauchery, so that at some times the Daemons would not appear to the Speculator; he would then suffumigate: sometimes, to vex the spirits, he would curse them, fumigate with contraries.
From William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 by Ashmole, Elias
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