"tiefling" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tief",
        "3": "-ling",
        "lang1": "de",
        "t1": "deep, low"
      },
      "expansion": "German tief (“deep, low”) + -ling",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From German tief (“deep, low”) + -ling; coined for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tieflings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tiefling (plural tieflings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ling",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dungeons & Dragons",
          "orig": "en:Dungeons & Dragons",
          "parents": [
            "Fantasy",
            "Role-playing games",
            "Tabletop games",
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Games",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Recreation",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Human activity",
            "Culture",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Society",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fictional characters",
          "orig": "en:Fictional characters",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Art",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Role-playing games",
          "orig": "en:Role-playing games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, David M. Ewalt, “D&D Next”, in Of dice and men : the story of Dungeons & Dragons and the people who play it, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 210:",
          "text": "That left me with either a human female paladin or a tiefling warlord.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 April 9, Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched, Assent Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, “Planar Scion”, in Starfinder: Alien Archive 2, Paizo, →ISBN, page 210:",
          "text": "The Radiant Cathedral, on the other hand, trains aasimars to become beacons of the Sarenite faith, and also guides tieflings to a brighter future than their heritage suggests.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "demon"
        },
        {
          "word": "devil"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-tiefling-en-noun-t5tVJ5os",
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "beings",
          "beings"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "demonic",
          "demonic"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "roleplaying games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fantasy, roleplaying games) A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "deep"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition",
        "tiefling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtiːflɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tiefling"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tief",
        "3": "-ling",
        "lang1": "de",
        "t1": "deep, low"
      },
      "expansion": "German tief (“deep, low”) + -ling",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From German tief (“deep, low”) + -ling; coined for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tieflings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tiefling (plural tieflings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "demon"
    },
    {
      "word": "devil"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "deep"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from German",
        "English terms suffixed with -ling",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Dungeons & Dragons",
        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Fictional characters",
        "en:Role-playing games"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, David M. Ewalt, “D&D Next”, in Of dice and men : the story of Dungeons & Dragons and the people who play it, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 210:",
          "text": "That left me with either a human female paladin or a tiefling warlord.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 April 9, Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched, Assent Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, “Planar Scion”, in Starfinder: Alien Archive 2, Paizo, →ISBN, page 210:",
          "text": "The Radiant Cathedral, on the other hand, trains aasimars to become beacons of the Sarenite faith, and also guides tieflings to a brighter future than their heritage suggests.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "beings",
          "beings"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "demonic",
          "demonic"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "roleplaying games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fantasy, roleplaying games) A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition",
        "tiefling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtiːflɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tiefling"
}