Meaning

5 senses
  1. A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

    Dämon, Dämonin, böser Geist

    де́монdémon

  2. A very evil person.

    Teufel, Monster, Ungeheuer

    злоде́йzlodéj, и́звергízverg

    an evil supernatural being

  3. (informal)An addict or fanatic.

    dope fiend

    He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.

    Fanatiker, Enthusiast, Süchtiger

    фана́тикfanátik

  4. (obsolete)An enemy; a foe.

    We waited for our fiend to arrive.

  5. (archaic, capitalized, sometimes)The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. His angelic face hid the fiend within.

  2. As he stood there he might have been a fiend.

    deEr war einem Dämon gleich, als er da so stand. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. “You fiend!” he kept on muttering, “you clever, clever fiend!”

  4. Tom's a coke fiend.

  5. The universe is neither friend nor fiend. It's simply indifferent.

    deDas Universum ist weder feindlich noch freundlich. Es ist einfach gleichgültig. — Esperantostern

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
demon:
very evil person:
addict, fanatic:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
demon:
very evil person:
addict, fanatic:

Origin

From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-

From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.

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Forms

plural: fiends
Singularfiend
Pluralfiends

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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