Meaning of demon | Babel Free

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1. An evil supernatural being. An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity. A very wicked or malevolent person; also a mischievous person, especially a child. A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw
2. An evil supernatural being.
3. An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
4. Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
5. Alternative spelling of daemon.
   alt-of, alternative
6. Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”).
   alt-of, uncountable
7. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
8. An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
9. A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
   historical
10. An evil spirit that may take many different forms. In Western tradition they are sometimes referred to as infernal spirits and have been said to exist in hundreds of thousands. In other traditions they are thought to exist in billions.
11. A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity
12. A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
13. an evil spirit; a devil. demons from Hell. bose gees, demoon, duiwel شَيْطان، عِفْريت، جِن демон demônio démon der Dämon dæmon; ond ånd δαίμοναςdemonio kuri vaim دیو؛ روح اهریمنی paholainen démonשד पिशाच demon, zloduh démon iblis djöfull, púki, illur andi demone 悪魔 악령 demonas dēmons; nelabais; ļaunais gars hantu demondemon, djeveldemon شيطان demónio diavol; demon демон démon demon demon demon ปีศาจ şeytan, iblis 惡魔，魔鬼 демон, диявол بدروح ؛ آسیب ma quỷ 恶魔，魔鬼
14. A very wicked or malevolent person; also a mischievous person, especially a child
15. A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
16. An evil supernatural being; a devil.
17. A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw
18. A person's fears or anxieties.
    in-plural
19. A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion: the demon of drug addiction.
20. A neutral supernatural being.
21. A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
22. One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent: worked away like a demon; a real demon at math.
23. A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
    Greek
24. an evil spirit or devil
25. A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
26. a person, habit, obsession, etc, thought of as evil, cruel, or persistently tormenting
27. A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
28. Also called: daemon or daimon an attendant or ministering spirit; genius: the demon of inspiration.
    or
29. Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
30. a person who is extremely skilful in, energetic at, or devoted to a given activity, esp a sport: a demon at cycling.
31. A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
32. a variant spelling of daemon1
33. Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.

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Examples

“So what does the Gospel of Judas really say? It says that Judas is a specific demon called the "Thirteenth." In certain Gnostic traditions, this is the given name of the king of demons - an entity known as Ialdabaoth who lives in the 13th realm above the earth. Judas is his human alter ego, his undercover agent in the world. These Gnostics equated Ialdabaoth with the Hebrew Yahweh, whom they saw as a jealous and wrathful deity and an opponent of the supreme God whom Jesus came to earth to reveal. Whoever wrote the Gospel of Judas was a harsh critic of mainstream Christianity and its rituals. Because Judas is a demon working for Ialdabaoth, the author believed, when Judas sacrifices Jesus he does so to the demons, not to the supreme God. This mocks mainstream Christians' belief in the atoning value of Jesus' death and in the effectiveness of the Eucharist.”

“The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.”

“After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.”

“Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable.”

““You saw her. And I picked her up,” Lyra said, blushing, because of course it was a gross violation of manners to touch something so private as someone else's dæmon.”

“Let the orders now be that each demon is to stop all molecules from crossing his area in either direction except 100 coming from A, arbitrarily chosen to be let pass into B, and a greater number, having among them less energy but equal momentum, to cross from B to A.”

“He’s a demon at the card tables.”

“Chelsea defended like demons to snuff out Manchester City but this was a perfectly calibrated triumph, built upon a structured attacking approach, choosing the right moments to transition, and illuminated by the smoothness of Havertz’s technique.”

“‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.”

“Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.”

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