DAEMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daemon mean? 

• DAEMON (noun)
  The noun DAEMON has 2 senses:

1. an evil supernatural being

2. a person who is part mortal and part god

  Familiarity information: DAEMON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAEMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An evil supernatural being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

daemon; daimon; demon; devil; fiend

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who is part mortal and part god

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

daemon; demigod

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)

 Context examples 

Edmund was almost as welcome to his brother as Fanny to her aunt; but Mrs. Norris, instead of having comfort from either, was but the more irritated by the sight of the person whom, in the blindness of her anger, she could have charged as the daemon of the piece.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)