daemonnoun [ C ]
/ˈdiː.mən//ˈdiː.mən/in stories from ancient Greece, a creature that is part human and part god
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Mythological & legendary characters
- Abominable Snowman
- Anancy
- Ares
- Bellona
- bigfoot
- creature
- Cyclops
- demigod
- goddess
- hobbit
- imp
- Jack Frost
- leprechaun
- mermaid
- Orpheus
- Pleiades
- Poseidon
- Prometheus
- shape-shifter
- tooth fairy
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Examples from literature
- But, through the prayers of Peter, the two daemons who were carrying him aloft let go their hold and so Simon perishes miserably.
- Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations.
- For the evil daemon who plots against the teaching of Jesus, knew that no counsel of his own would be undone by the disciples of Simon.
- It was a great well of light, playing over strange frescoes of gods and daemons, of constellations and of beasts, and exquisite with all the secret colours of some other way of vision.
- The daemon shall not choose us, but we shall choose our daemon.