demons
- 1Plural of demon.
Medieval paintings often depicted demons tormenting the souls of the damned.
The exorcist claimed to have driven several demons from the household.
Note
A regular plural, but one meaning lives almost entirely here: a person's fears and anxieties. Someone who battles their demons, or faces their personal demons, is struggling with something inside, not with anything from Hell, and the singular rarely carries that sense. Context sorts the two readings. An exorcist drives demons out of a house, while a troubled person confronts demons of their own.
After years of silence, she finally began to talk about her demons.
He spent most of his career fighting personal demons.
demons is a form of demon
demon, noun: An evil spirit, especially one believed to serve the Devil or to torment or possess people; historically also a god or idol regarded as such a spirit. Full entry
- Forms
- demondemons plural
- Spelling
- demon → demons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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