MAMMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mammon mean? 

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

1. wealth regarded as an evil influence

2. (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit

  Familiarity information: MAMMON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAMMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wealth regarded as an evil influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

wealth; wealthiness (the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

ye cannot serve God and Mammon

Instance hypernyms:

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Domain category:

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)