- an evil spirit
- The people believed the girl was possessed by demons.
Extra Examples- demons torturing the sinners in Hell
- an ancient ritual to exorcise demons
- tales of travellers attacked by evil demons
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- evil
- inner
- personal
- …
- be possessed by
- cast out
- exorcize
- …
- something that causes a person to worry and makes them unhappy
- the demons of jealousy
- She's had to battle her personal demons throughout her adult life.
- He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- evil
- inner
- personal
- …
- be possessed by
- cast out
- exorcize
- …
- (informal) a person who does something very well or with a lot of energy
- He skis like a demon.
- He’s a demon: he gets up early, he works out, he goes home early, he studies, he works out again…
Word OriginMiddle English: from medieval Latin, from Latin daemon, from Greek daimōn ‘deity, genius’; in sense (1) also from Latin daemonium ‘lesser or evil spirit’, from Greek daemonion, diminutive of daimōn.
Idioms
See demon in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarythe demon drink
- (British English, humorous) alcoholic drink
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