Usually means: Supernatural being, often malevolent spirit.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. demon: Merriam-Webster
  2. demon, demon, demon, demon, demon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demon, demon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demon, demon: Wordnik
  7. demon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demon: Wiktionary
  9. demon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Demon, demon, demon, demon-: Dictionary.com
  13. demon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. demon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Demon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. demon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. demon: Rhymezone
  19. demon, demon (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. demon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. demon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. demon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. demon, demon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. demon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -demon, demon-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. demon: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demon: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. demon: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Demon, The Demon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEMON: Acronym Finder
  2. demon: Idioms
  3. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Demon: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Demon: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. demon, demon, demon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Demon, the demon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See demonian as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An evil supernatural spirit.
noun:  An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
noun:  A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
noun:  A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
noun:  (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
noun:  A neutral supernatural spirit.
noun:  A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
noun:  A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
noun:  A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
noun:  Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
noun:  (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
noun:  Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
noun:  A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun:  (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: A quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
noun:  (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon [(mythology) A minor deity or divinity.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”). [An evil supernatural spirit.]

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