dementor
/dɪˈmɛntə/
dementor noun: an evil and fearsome creature.
Noun
dementor (plural dementors)
- An evil and fearsome creature.
- […] and by which a certain Rabbi, who was once annoyed by a demon that came to him in the shape of a woman, got rid of his dementor.1850, A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers, page 423
- […] it was protection against the anorexic dementor standing in front of me.2008, The Godmother, Carrie Adams, page 242
dementor meaning in Bengali and Indonesian
dementor in Bengali
- অশুভ এবং ভয়ঙ্কর প্রাণী
dementor in Indonesian
- evil and fearsome creature
- iblis
Forms of dementor
| plural | dementors |
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Origin of dementor
From dement + -or. Repopularized by the Harry Potter series.
Words that rhyme with dementor
- center
- enter
- tormentor
- concentre
- presenter
- renter
- stentor
- venter
- accentor
- cementer
- decentre
- preventer
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- reenter
- tenter
- assenter
- fermenter
- hypocentre
- indenter
- off-centre
- Valley Center
- absenter
- assentor
- augmenter
- augmentor
- barycentre
- centre
- coinventor
- concenter
- consenter
- correction center
- correction centre
- decenter
- dissenter
- entre
- fermentor
- fomenter
- incenter
- incentre
- indentor
- innoventor
- inventer
- inventor
- inventour
- lamenter
- mentor
- metacentre
- misenter
- off-center
- orthocenter
- orthocentre
- precentor
- re-enter
- re-entre
- reentre
- repenter
- representer
- salipenter
- Siberian accentor
- tormenter
Questions about dementor
- What does dementor mean?
- Dementor means an evil and fearsome creature.
- What is dementor in Bengali?
- Dementor in Bengali is অশুভ এবং ভয়ঙ্কর প্রাণী. See Dementor meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is dementor?
- Dementor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dementor?
- Dementor is pronounced /dɪˈmɛntə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dementor?
- The plural of dementor is dementors.
Words near dementor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dementor (page history and authors); dementor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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