Word.ws English Dictionary

lamias

lamias is the plural of lamia.

Meaning of lamia

Noun

lamia (plural lamias or lamiae)

  1. (Greek) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
    • Coordinate term: naga
    Synonyms:
    vampire

See all 2 meanings of lamia

Questions about lamias

What is lamias the plural of?
Lamias is the plural of lamia.

Words near lamias in the dictionary

  1. Lamgong
  2. lamia
  3. lamiaceous
  4. lamiae
  5. lamian
  6. lamias
  7. lamibe
  8. Lamica
  9. Lamicas
  10. lamido
  11. lamidos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lamias (page history and authors); lamia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lamias.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lamias. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.