daemon

[ dee-muhn ]
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noun
  1. Classical Mythology.

    • a god.

    • a subordinate deity, as the genius of a place or a person's attendant spirit.

  2. a demon.

Origin of daemon

1
<Latin daemōn a spirit, an evil spirit <Greek daímōn a deity, fate, fortune; compare daíesthai to distribute

Other words from daemon

  • dae·mon·ic [dih-mon-ik], /dɪˈmɒn ɪk/, dae·mon·is·tic [dee-muh-nis-tik], /ˌdi məˈnɪs tɪk/, adjective

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How to use daemon in a sentence

  • The Pythagoreans also assert that the whole air is full of souls, and that these are those which are accounted daemons and heroes.

  • This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons.

    Siddhartha | Herman Hesse
  • Where is the proof, said I, that daemons may not be subjected to the controul of men?

    Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden Brown
  • But, through the prayers of Peter, the two daemons who were carrying him aloft let go their hold and so Simon perishes miserably.

    Simon Magus | George Robert Stow Mead
  • For how will obscene things give life, if it were not a conception of daemons?

    Simon Magus | George Robert Stow Mead

British Dictionary definitions for daemon

daemon

daimon

/ (ˈdiːmən) /


noun
  1. a demigod

  2. the guardian spirit of a place or person

  1. a variant spelling of demon (def. 3)

Derived forms of daemon

  • daemonic (diːˈmɒnɪk), adjective

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