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demigod
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demigod \Dem"i*god\, n. A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal. 2 A lesser deity.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The term demigod or demi-god can refer to a minor deity, a mortal who is the offspring of a god and a human being, or a figure who has attained divine status after death.
Demigod are a death metal band formed in 1990 in Loimaa, Finland. The band's debut album Slumber of Sullen Eyes is highly regarded in the heavy metal community. Terrorizer included it in their list of "40 death metal albums that you must hear", commenting: "It is with this often overlooked classic that one of the greatest love stories of all time unfolded: Florida's pummeling groove me Sweden's buzzsaw guitar work in a union so deliciously evil it could move the hardest of bangers to tears of joy."
A demigod is a half human and half godlike being.
Demigod may also refer to:
In music- Demigod (band), a Finnish death metal band
- Demigod (album), an album by the band Behemoth
- "Demigod", a song from Demonic Art by Darkane
- Demigodz, an underground hip-hop super group which originated in Connecticut
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1982 TV series)
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1997 TV series)
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (2003 TV series)
- Legend of the Demigods
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, a novel by Jin Yong
- Characters from Rick Riordan's young adult fiction series Percy Jackson & the Olympians
- Demigod (video game), a real time strategy computer game
Demigod is the seventh studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was recorded during May and July in 2004 at the Hendrix Studios and was released on October 11, 2004. Daniel Bergstrand mixed the record at the Dug out Studios in Uppsala, Sweden during July and August in 2004. The record was then mastered at the Cutting Room in Stockholm, Sweden in August, 2004.
The track "XUL" included a guest guitar solo by Karl Sanders of Nile.
The track "Before the Æons Came" is an adaptation of a poem by British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Demigod is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed by Gas Powered Games for Microsoft Windows platform and released on April 14, 2009. The game's title refers to the powerful player characters that battle for supremacy over various zones. The game is multiplayer-oriented and competitive in nature, though it also features a single-player mode against CPU commanded characters. A free demo featuring a multi-player option became available on July 30, 2009 with all gameplay modes unlocked.
Usage examples of "demigod".
I knew that Adena and her tiny band of remaining soldiers would survive the cold of the Ice Age and raise their children to tell them of the demigod who taught them how to make fire.
We have seen earlier in this chapter that in Mangarevan folk-lore a demigod named Tupa was represented as sailing from Havaiki via Mangareva to Hiva.
True demigods, as far beyond us as we are beyond these shaggy apelike fellows here.
He had a momentary vision of the members of the High Government, shadowy demigods at least eleven feet high, pausing in their incomprehensible labors to drop a minislip memo down the chute to Koll.
Then these in turn were relayed to demigods like Polivinosel, Albert Allegory, and a dozen others I had not heard of before then.
Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.
If spirits and demigods were a shorthand for all the pseudorandomness of nature, then God was a shorthand for all the spirits taken together.
Megapentheth the themi-demigod, thon of Queen Ththeneboeia by the demigod Bellerophon and thlayer of the falth mythic hero Pertheuth.
A festive spirit had also infected Heaven, and with the gathering of the gods and the demigods, the heroes and the nobles, the high priests and the favored rajahs and high-ranking Brahmins, this spirit obtained force and momentum and spun like an all-colored whirlwind, thundering in the heads of the First and latest alike.
How they broke Comradeship rules, together delinking from the Comradeship for short periods of time, alone together, able to bestride Kundala like colossi, drunk on their own lust, becoming for a time demigods capable of anything.
The tragedies of the Doughertys were the stuff of endless magazine covers from People to Good Housekeeping to Playboy to Vanity Fair, a national obsession that sometimes seemed destined to evolve into a formidable political mythology in which the Doughertys were not merely ordinary men or women but demigods and demigoddesses, embodiments of virtue, goodwill, and sacrifice.
Demigods, heroes, and monsters: Adapa (Uan) - the first of the seven antediluvian sages who were sent by Ea to deliver the arts of civilization to mankind.
A soft-hearted slave-owner - Social gaiety in the midst of war talk - Beauregard a hero and a demigod - The first shot of the war - Anderson refuses to capitulate - The bombardment of Fort Sumter as seen from the housetops - War steamers arrive in Charleston harbor - "Bull Run" Russell - Demeanor of the negroes .
To strike a descendant of genies, someone practically a demigod, would offend the gods themselves.
Maurice Richard is the best hockey player in the world, the hero of all French Canada, a demigod to schoolboys throughout the province.