Demon
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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Noun[edit]
Demon (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of demon (“card game”).
Etymology 2[edit]
From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).
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Proper noun[edit]
Demon
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- 1952, Plutarch, “Theseus”, in Dryden, et. al, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Great Books of the Western World; 14):
- Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.
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