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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:

Nouns denoting people

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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