Definitions for Demon

Demon de·mon

Spelling: [dee-muh n]
IPA: /ˈdi mən/

Demon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in Demon (demno).

Definitions for Demon

noun

  1. an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
  2. an evil passion or influence.
  3. a person considered extremely wicked, evil, or cruel.
  4. a person with great energy, drive, etc.:
  5. a person, especially a child, who is very mischievous:
  6. daemon.
  7. Australian Slang. a policeman, especially a detective.

adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or noting a demon.
  2. possessed or controlled by a demon.

Origin of Demon

1350-1400; Middle English Latin daemonium Greek daimónion, thing of divine nature (in Jewish and Christian writers, evil spirit), neuter of daimónios, derivative of daímōn; (def 6) Latin; see

Examples for Demon

No matter how much he burrows into his mind, he must face the demon of death.

What a demon, a behemoth, evil just seems to be seeping through him.

With your lying tongue you have changed her into a demon to persecute me!

Truly a demon had possessed him: might not an angel have been by him as he slept?

Occasionally, he will use the Bible as a sword, “stabbing” the possessed in the back to force the demon to engage.

The painter can accumulate ugliness, but I do not remember a demon worth the name.

Diablo was cutting down the lead the other two held over him, galloping like a demon.

He fashioned BOB, the demon spirit who lived in the Black Lodge, but such an explanation satisfied precious few of us.

While Ichabod is checking for non-existent cell service, Abbie learns that Moloch is planning to release a demon army on earth.

All that fiendish cruelty and the demon of destruction could do was done.

Word Value for Demon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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