Daemon Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Daemon? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Words starting with Daemon, Words ending with Daemon, How to pronounce? Related sentences, Example sentences, Synonyms, Derivations, Antonyms and more...

Word: Daemon

How to pronounce: ˈdiːmən

Noun

Definitions:

1. (in ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.

Example sentences: "Iamblichus also stressed that theurgists usually worked with lesser divinities - heroes, daimons and angels - and only the greatest of all, in exceptional circumstances, would trouble actual deities."

2. Archaic spelling of demon

Example sentences: "Is the entire town possessed by a malevolent daemon, forcing people to worship it by carving its image into fruit and vegetables, and hanging its likeness in their windows?"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required.

Example sentences: "Before you can start using the administration daemon over the network, you have to create a keytab file containing the key for one of the kadmin principals created when we initialized our realm."

Synonyms:

devil

fiend

demon

daimon

Synonyms:

imp

devil

fiend

incubus

daimon

daemon