See daimon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for daimon meaning in English (5.8kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "daimonic"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "daimonology"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "δαίμων",
"4": "",
"5": "the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "demon",
"alt1": "demons",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "demons",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "Λᾰκεδαίμων",
"3": "",
"4": "Laconian dispenser"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Λᾰκεδαίμων (Lakedaímōn, “Laconian dispenser”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A modern romanization of Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity”), intended to distinguish its ancient Greek sense from later conceptions of demons. Compare Ancient Greek Λᾰκεδαίμων (Lakedaímōn, “Laconian dispenser”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "daimons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "daimones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "daimones"
},
"expansion": "daimon (plural daimons or daimones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"dai‧mon"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "agathodaimon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "daimonian"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "eudaimon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "kakodaimon"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16",
"text": "Love, as we know it in the book, is a daimon which possesses and undoes each of its victims.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of demon, particularly as"
],
"id": "en-daimon-en-noun-OqZBYenE",
"links": [
[
"demon",
"demon#English"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "demon"
},
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "particularly as"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Greek mythology",
"orig": "en:Greek mythology",
"parents": [
"Ancient Greece",
"Mythology",
"Ancient Europe",
"Ancient Near East",
"History of Greece",
"Culture",
"Ancient history",
"History of Europe",
"Ancient Asia",
"Greece",
"History of Asia",
"Society",
"History",
"Europe",
"Asia",
"All topics",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "3 97",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 95",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXV, number CCCLXXXVII, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC, page 121",
"text": "All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1891, W[alter] J[ames] Hoffman, The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 163",
"text": "The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy: And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, book I, chapter 27",
"text": "Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, “Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America”, in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, volume 1, number 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →OCLC",
"text": "He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of demon, particularly as",
"A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place."
],
"id": "en-daimon-en-noun-8xVgWQ5C",
"links": [
[
"demon",
"demon#English"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"tutelary deity",
"tutelary deity"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"watches over",
"watches over"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"place",
"place"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Synonym of demon, particularly as",
"(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place."
],
"tags": [
"Greek"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdʌɪməʊn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-daimon.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Phang Nga Bay",
"daemon (classical mythology)",
"spirit house"
],
"word": "daimon"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *deh₂-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "daimonic"
},
{
"word": "daimonology"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "δαίμων",
"4": "",
"5": "the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "demon",
"alt1": "demons",
"notext": "1"
},
"expansion": "demons",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "Λᾰκεδαίμων",
"3": "",
"4": "Laconian dispenser"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Λᾰκεδαίμων (Lakedaímōn, “Laconian dispenser”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A modern romanization of Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity”), intended to distinguish its ancient Greek sense from later conceptions of demons. Compare Ancient Greek Λᾰκεδαίμων (Lakedaímōn, “Laconian dispenser”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "daimons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "daimones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "daimones"
},
"expansion": "daimon (plural daimons or daimones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"dai‧mon"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "agathodaimon"
},
{
"word": "daimonian"
},
{
"word": "eudaimon"
},
{
"word": "kakodaimon"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16",
"text": "Love, as we know it in the book, is a daimon which possesses and undoes each of its victims.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of demon, particularly as"
],
"links": [
[
"demon",
"demon#English"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "demon"
},
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "particularly as"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Greek mythology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXV, number CCCLXXXVII, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC, page 121",
"text": "All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1891, W[alter] J[ames] Hoffman, The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 163",
"text": "The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy: And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, book I, chapter 27",
"text": "Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, “Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America”, in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, volume 1, number 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →OCLC",
"text": "He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of demon, particularly as",
"A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place."
],
"links": [
[
"demon",
"demon#English"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"tutelary deity",
"tutelary deity"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"watches over",
"watches over"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"place",
"place"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"Synonym of demon, particularly as",
"(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place."
],
"tags": [
"Greek"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdʌɪməʊn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-daimon.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-daimon.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Phang Nga Bay",
"daemon (classical mythology)",
"spirit house"
],
"word": "daimon"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.