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DAIMON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An evil supernatural being

Synonyms:

daemon; daimon; demon; devil; fiend

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("daimon" is a kind of...):

evil spirit (a spirit tending to cause harm)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daimon"):

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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