Dragon vs. Demon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dragon and Demon
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Dragon
A dragon is a large, serpentine, legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, four-legged, and capable of breathing fire.
Demon
A demon is a supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, anime, and television series. In Ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism.
Dragon
See Draco2.
Demon
An evil supernatural being; a devil.
Dragon
A mythical monster traditionally represented as a gigantic reptile having a long tail, sharp claws, scaly skin, and often wings.
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Demon
A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion
The demon of drug addiction.
Dragon
Any of various lizards, such as the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard.
Demon
One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent
Worked away like a demon.
A real demon at math.
Dragon
A fiercely vigilant or intractable person.
Demon
Variant of daimon.
Dragon
Something very formidable or dangerous.
Demon
An evil supernatural spirit.
Dragon
(Archaic) A large snake or serpent.
Demon
An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
Dragon
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
Demon
A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
Dragon
In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
Demon
A very wicked or malevolent person; also in weakened sense a mischievous person, especially a child.
Dragon
In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
Demon
A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
Dragon
An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
Demon
(in plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
Dragon
(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
Demon
A neutral supernatural spirit.
Dragon
Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
Demon
A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
Dragon
A Komodo dragon.
Demon
(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
Dragon
The constellation Draco.
Demon
A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
Dragon
(pejorative) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
She’s a bit of a dragon.
Demon
A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
Dragon
The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
Demon
Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
He’s a demon at the card tables.
Dragon
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
Demon
(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
Dragon
A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.
Demon
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Dragon
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
Demon
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.
Dragon
A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
Demon
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
Dragon
A background process similar to a daemon.
Demon
An evil spirit; a devil.
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
Dragon
A variety of carrier pigeon.
Demon
One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
Dragon
(slang) A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person.
Demon
A cruel wicked and inhuman person
Dragon
A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile.
Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.
Demon
Someone extremely diligent or skillful;
He worked like a demon to finish the job on time
She's a demon at math
Dragon
A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
Dragon
A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
Dragon
A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
Dragon
A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; - so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
Dragon
A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
Dragon
A variety of carrier pigeon.
Dragon
A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
Dragon
A creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
Dragon
A fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
Dragon
A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus
Dragon
Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
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