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demigod

WordNet
On a tiger stands the goddess Durga, to her right is the monkey-faced demigod Hanuman with folded hands, behind her a servant who feeds her coolness. A black and white border line and a narrow orange-red border around the scene; damaged.
On a tiger stands the goddess Durga, to her right is the monkey-faced demigod Hanuman with folded hands, behind her a servant who feeds her coolness. A black and white border line and a narrow orange-red border around the scene; damaged.
  1. (n) demigod
    a person who is part mortal and part god
  2. (n) demigod
    a person with great powers and abilities
Illustrations
The demigod, monkey Hanuman, jumps from one mountain top to another, holding up a rock with medicinal herbs in his raised left hand, and a club in his right hand. Around the scene a white border and a wide brown-orange leaf margin.
The demigod, monkey Hanuman, jumps from one mountain top to another, holding up a rock with medicinal herbs in his raised left hand, and a club in his right hand. Around the scene a white border and a wide brown-orange leaf margin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Demigod
    A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) demigod
    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.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Demigod
    dem′i-god half a god: one whose nature is partly divine, esp. a hero fabled to be the offspring of a god and a mortal
Quotations
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone De Beauvoir
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. demi, half, and god.

Usage in the news

The next month, you're sitting next to animation demigod John Lasseter on Emeryville, Calif, acreage that is also called a "campus" but in truth is a whole other playing field. ashingtonpost.com

Stardock's recently released PC strategy title Demigod has attracted more than 100,000 gamers. blog.wired.com

It's not just that Ashton Kutcher, the demigod of Dude ever since Dude, Where's My Car. observer.com

The sound is rooted in the band's fascination with Big Muff distortion and pale demigod Jack White. ocweekly.com

But not all our leading sports stars fit the stereotypical bill of chest-thumping demigods. clickondetroit.com

Spartan general and demigod Kratos, back from the dead, gets an even more muscular look in the new installment of the series for PS3. usatoday.com

Which means Neil Peart —drum Jedi, demigod to millions of fawning skinsmen around the globe—is coming to town this week. villagevoice.com

The mega-monstrous Mondo Gallery show highlighting the demigods of ghoulish, the Universal Monsters, opens this weekend. austinchronicle.com

FOR all the legendary machismo of the Abstract Expressionists, the true Promethean demigods, shaping the earth and entire cities with their craggy hands, are the Land artists. nytimes.com

Fool's Errand: Mythical Greek god of the sea Poseidon (Danny Huston) and Zeus' demigod son Perseus (Sam Worthington) are both trapped in a divinely dysfunctional family whose feud unfortunately impacts the fate of all humans. montereycountyweekly.com

Percy 's wheelchair-bound teacher Chiron (Pierce Brosnan) accompanies him to a camp for demigods, where Percy hones his fighting skills. citybeat.com

Fans of demigod Percy Jackson, djinni Bartimaeus, and the planet-hopping Little Prince will be able to revisit these characters in new graphic novels this fall. publishersweekly.com

Judges are demigods within their areas of jurisdiction. post-journal.com

Run by a friendly team of denim demigods, this East End jeans shop is arguably the best in London. travelandleisure.com

The SoCal-born trio's songwriter and established indie rock demigod John Darnielle has released an LP's worth of songs each of the last five years. austinchronicle.com

Usage in literature

The wife of Barclay, author of "The Argenis," considered herself as the wife of a demigod. "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)" by Isaac D'Israeli

I dreamed I was a king, a kaiser, a demigod. "The Lady of Loyalty House" by Justin Huntly McCarthy

John Northwood, you'll have to fight a demigod for your woman! "Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930" by Various

From Goethe to Carlyle, what a long roll of gods, demigods, and demisemigods it was! "Imaginary Interviews" by W. D. Howells

Mamise, however, looked on Davidge in his swivel-chair as a kind of despondent demigod, a Titan weary of the eternal strife. "The Cup of Fury" by Rupert Hughes

Men like you have a right to trample on what is mortal in a demigod. "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë

If he were primal man of primal nature, the demigod raptor who seizes his mate? "The Missourian" by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

I have consulted God and demigod; the nymph of the river, and what I far more admire and trust, my blue-eyed Minerva. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI" by Robert Louis Stevenson

What wouldn't one overlook in a demigod like you? "The German Classics, v. 20" by Various

You are as great as a demigod, but you do not know human beings. "Sónnica" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Usage in poetry
Than his who, old, and cold, and vain,
At Weimar sat, a demigod,
And bowed with Jove's imperial nod
His votaries in and out again!
"To James T. Fields" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
Not man nor demigod could put together
The scraps of rusted reverie, the wheels
Of notched tin platitudes concerning weather,
Perfume, politics, and fixed ideals.
"Sonnet : To Eva" by Sylvia Plath
We have been believers believing in our burdens and our
demigods too long. Now the needy no longer weep and
pray; the long-suffering arise, and our fists bleed
against the bars with a strange insistency.
"We Have Been Believers" by Margaret Walker Author object (462)