Daemon Meaning and Definition


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Daemon meaning

Word: Daemon

How to pronounce: ˈdiːmən

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

shaitan

monster

ghost


Antonyms:

angel


Derivations:

daemonic

demonic

demoniac

demonical

demoness

demonically


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Daemon in Other Languages...

Spanish: Demonio

German: Dämonen

French: Démon

Italian: Demone

Turkish: Plan


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