Daemon

//ˈdiː.mən//

Synonyms for "daemon" (58 found)

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Noun(2 words)
daimondemigod

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Related words (29)

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Translations

16 translations across 12 languages.

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Czech

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  • démon noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Finnish

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  • daemoni noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)
  • palveluprosessi noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)
  • taustaprosessi noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

French

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  • daemon noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)
  • démon noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

German

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  • Hintergrundprogramm noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Greek

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  • δαίμονας noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)
  • δαίμων noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Irish

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  • daeman noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Japanese

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  • デーモン noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Russian

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  • де́мон noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Spanish

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  • demonio noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Swedish

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  • demon noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Turkish

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  • artalan süreci noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Ukrainian

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  • де́мон noun (computing: process with no controlling terminal)

Sample sentences

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2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Press, page 46, On some apotropaic wands the hippopotamus daemon bites or devours a person.⁸⁸ On a well-known New Kingdom papyrus, Taweret, who is named, is listed amongst evil daemons.

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That is why those of exceptionally "daemonic temperament", those who cannot early and thoroughly subdue the daemon within them, are racked by disquietude. Ever and again the daemon snatches the helm from their control and steers them (helpless as straws in the blast) into the heart of the storm, perchance to shatter them on the rocks of destiny.

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2015, Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows, Penguin Random House (Random House), eBook edition, unnumbered page, Coleridge, deep in daemons, looked to them for his poetic power: They gave him Kubla Khan, Christabel, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He welcomed his daemon or genius and yet feared it.

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