demon🔊

An evil supernatural spirit.

An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.

(now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.

A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.

A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.

A person's fears or anxieties.

A neutral supernatural spirit.

A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.

(Greek mythology) 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.

A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.

A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.

Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.

(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.

(physics) A quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.