What does "lilith" mean?
A type of female Mesopotamian demon, typically seen as coming to men in dreams and as endangering women during pregnancy or childbirth.
Lilith
name, noun
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A type of female Mesopotamian demon, typically seen as coming to men in dreams and as endangering women during pregnancy or childbirth.
- Grammar: lilith is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: abaddon, adam's first wife, adam's wife, archetype of female autonomy.
- Useful contrasts: Eve, angel, holy being.
- Usage evidence: Kathy set about brightening her coworkers' day with fresh muffins when her demoniac alter ago, High Priestess Lilith, convinced her to poison them.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A type of female Mesopotamian demon, typically seen as coming to men in dreams and as endangering women during pregnancy or childbirth.
"[A] Mandaic specimen from Kutha (BM 91715) which contains two independent incantations separated by a line: a historiola relating the expulsion of a particular lilith and the report of a dream purportedly dreamt by the client[.]"
- 2 in ancient Semitic folklore: a female demon who attacks children wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
- 2 The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore. Judaism
"Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold."
- 3 The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
- 4 A female given name from Hebrew.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Kathy set about brightening her coworkers' day with fresh muffins when her demoniac alter ago, High Priestess Lilith, convinced her to poison them."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "lilith"?
Common synonyms include: abaddon, adam's first wife, adam's wife, archetype of female autonomy, beelzebub, demon.
How do you use "lilith" in a sentence?
Kathy set about brightening her coworkers' day with fresh muffins when her demoniac alter ago, High Priestess Lilith, convinced her to poison them.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ).
Etymology 2
See Lilith