Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a god.
- noun An inferior deity; a minor god.
- noun A deified man.
- noun A person who is highly honored or revered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inferior or minor deity; one partaking of the divine nature; specifically, a fabulous hero produced by the intercourse of a deity with a mortal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A half-god or
hero ; the offspring of adeity and amortal . - noun A
lesser deity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is part mortal and part god
- noun a person with great powers and abilities
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Examples
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Jackson made music that pleased a lot of people, but to make this sordid individual into a demigod is an insult to far more worthy people who die every day. sully
Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy' 2009
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The demigod is often part god — half-god in the case of Heracles, two-thirds in the case of Gilgamesh.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The demigod is often part god — half-god in the case of Heracles, two-thirds in the case of Gilgamesh.
A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009
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The demigod is for anyone, and has some recovery powers.
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Could one of our aviators have landed in ancient Athens, doubtless he would have been given a place in the Greek Pantheon, for the old idea of a demigod was a man with wings.
Four-Dimensional Vistas Claude Fayette Bragdon 1906
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In between are essays, profiles, a poem and an interactive map by table tennis-loving writers including crossword demigod Will Shortz and "High Fidelity" author Nick Hornby.
SFGate: Top News Stories Peter Hartlaub 2011
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I read that the demigod is the son of Elune, who seems to be shaped like an elf in the pictures, and Malorne, who is, uhhhm, a deer.
WoW.com 2008
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Clemens is what a 'demigod' always turns out to be-- cruel, manipulative, narcissistic and controlling.
I have made a photograph of the way I feel. Ann Althouse 2008
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This satisfied them: Mamma was there, hence all was well ... as though she were a kind of demigod, who controlled even the eruptions of volcanoes!
Ultima Thule 2003
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a demigod was the face of a monkey, a drunkard, and a comedian, -- vain, full of changing desires, swollen with fat, notwithstanding his youth; besides, it was sickly and foul.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
vendingmachine commented on the word demigod
Thanks for the specifics, Century Dictionary.
August 13, 2015