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demihuman

demihuman noun: a member of a human-like race; in fantasy, sometimes distinguished from the more bestial humanoid races.

Noun

demihuman (plural demihumans)

  1. A member of a human-like race; in fantasy, sometimes distinguished from the more bestial humanoid races.
    • No wonder Columbus was dubious. Though perfectly charming, in a Droopy-esque way. it would take a lot of imagination (or desperation) to convert this into a demihuman sex siren.1986, BBC Wildlife, volumes 4-5, page 393
    • Halflings look upon other demihuman and humanoid races as stock for the stew pot.1991, Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine, TSR, →ISBN

Examples of demihuman in a sentence

  • In the AD&D game, humans are more motivated by ambition and the desire for power than the demihuman races are.1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Steven E. Schend, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, TSR:
  • ... fact from the moment he first lays eyes on the demihuman M'ling, before he has any notion of Moreau or his surgical feats.2002, Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:
  • But it is also not a generic manifestation of the global demihuman.2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 207:
  • features of a thousand faces upon that awful head: human faces, demihuman, reptilian, serpentine, batrachian, vulpine. […]and many others for which I have no ready descriptive terms.2009, Brian Stableford, The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 89:

Forms of demihuman

pluraldemihumans

Origin of demihuman

From demi- + human.

Questions about demihuman

What does demihuman mean?
Demihuman means a member of a human-like race; in fantasy, sometimes distinguished from the more bestial humanoid races.
How do you use demihuman in a sentence?
In the AD&D game, humans are more motivated by ambition and the desire for power than the demihuman races are.
What part of speech is demihuman?
Demihuman is a noun.
What is the plural of demihuman?
The plural of demihuman is demihumans.

Words near demihuman in the dictionary

  1. demigrations
  2. demiguy
  3. demiguys
  4. demihorn
  5. demihorns
  6. demihuman
  7. demihumans
  8. demihypercube
  9. demihypercubes
  10. demijohn
  11. demijohns

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