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daemons

daemons is the plural of daemon.

Meaning of daemon

Noun (1)

daemon (plural daemons or daemones)

  1. A minor deity or divinity.
    • 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.2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Press, page 46
  2. A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
    • 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...2012, Stefan Zweig, translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul, The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche, Pushkin Press, unnumbered page
  3. An idea depicted as an entity.

Noun (2)

daemon (plural daemons)

  1. (Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

Questions about daemons

What is daemons the plural of?
Daemons is the plural of daemon.

Words near daemons in the dictionary

  1. daemonizing
  2. daemonless
  3. daemonologies
  4. daemonology
  5. daemonomancy
  6. daemons
  7. Daemyra
  8. Daenerys
  9. Daensism
  10. Daensist
  11. Daensists

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