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Definition: Fiend |
FiendNoun1. A cruel wicked and inhuman person. 2. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief. 3. A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fiend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you encounter a fiend, forbodes reckless living and loose morals. For a woman, this dream signifies a blackened reputation. To dream of a fiend, warns you of attacks to be made on you by false friends. If you overcome one, you will be able to intercept the evil designs of enemies. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: FiendSynonyms: daemon (n), daimon (n), demon (n), devil (n), fanatic (n), monster (n), ogre (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Noun: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba; Frankenstein's monster; Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush. |
Evil doer | Monster; fiend; (demon); devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster. |
Ingratitude | Phrase: "ingraPhrase: "ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend ". |
Satan | The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fiend |
| Specialty definitions using "fiend": Asmodeus, Astagoras ♦ Barbason, Black Dog ♦ EASTMAN ♦ Frateretto, Friar's Heel ♦ Modo ♦ Nosnot-Bocai ♦ Obidicut. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You fiend. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) You're a righteous fiend, aren't you (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig) Stop you fiend. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my outfit (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Once word gets around, you can bet every dope fiend and pothead within 50 miles will come sniffing around this house (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun) | |
Lyrics | And even as a crack fiend mama, (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Like a gamblin' fiend that does not bet ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fiend (1971) Fiend of Dope Island (1961) Fine Feathered Fiend (1960) The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) Fiend Without a Face (1958) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The hop fiend. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The opium fiend, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dreams of a rarebit fiend. "Why, dearie! They look like horns to me! Huh!". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Grind 2" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "I took this series for the cover of an Alien Sex Fiend album. They were never used." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. |
William Blake | My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The devil, once a shining angel, a son of the morning, now a foul fiend, came in the shape of a serpent, the subtlest of all the beasts of the field |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | What black magician conjures up this fiend To stop devoted charitable deeds |
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| "Fiend" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.39% of the time. "Fiend" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.39% | 85 | 35,870 |
| Noun (common) | 5.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 92 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fiend": arch fiend ♦ dope fiend ♦ drug fiend ♦ health fiend ♦ morphia fiend ♦ opium fiend ♦ sex fiend. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fiend": dope-fiend, drug-fiend, giant-fiend, sex-fiend, Weathervane-fiend. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fiend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri shumë i dhënë, dreq (daemon, demon, Deuce, devil, Dickens, heck, heller, hellion, imp, Satan), djall (archenemy, archfiend, Beelzebub, Belial, daemon, demon, devil, imp, Lucifer, old nick, old scratch, Satan). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهوس (crazy, mad), لا يطاق (impossible, insufferable, intolerable, unbearable), قبيح (disgusting, hideous, homely, monstrous, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), المدمن (addicted, user), شيطان (archenemy, bally, demon, devil, familiar, lucifer, pestilential, pixy, prince of darkness, puckish, satan, serpent), شخص بارع جدا, بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спец (dab, nailer, oner), голям майстор (past master), маниак на някаква тема, злодей (malefactor, villain), дявол (demon, devil, hell-hound, minx, scamp), демон (daemon, demon, incubus). (various references) | |
Chinese | 惡魔 (demon). (various references) | |
Czech | fanoušek (addict, buff, fan), fanda (enthusiast, freak), zloduch (demon), vyznavaè (confessor, devotee, follower), horlivec (an eager beaver, zealot), démon (daemon, demon, ghoul), ïábel (devil). (various references) | |
Finnish | ulkoilu hullu (fresh-air fiend). (various references) | |
French | mordu, monstre (fiendish), infernal, enragé, démon, compétent. (various references) | |
German | Teufel (demon, demons, Deuce, deuces, devil, devils, heck, Satan, terror), Feind (enemy, foe). (various references) | |
Greek | σατανάσ (daemon, demon, devil, prince of darkness, tempter), μανιώδησ σε κάποιο ελάττωμα, δαίμονασ (daemon, demon). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטן (adversary, arch enemy, devil, prince of darkness, serpent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ördög (auld hornie, auld horny, black bogy, bogy, bogy man, devil, dickens, his sable majesty, mephistopheles, prince of darkness, Satan), rabja vminek (addict, thrall, to be addicted), gonosz lélek. (various references) | |
Indonesian | setan (demon, devil, imp, satan), hantu (apparition, genie, ghost, goblin, imp). (various references) | |
Italian | spirito maligno (cacodemon, daemon, demon, Goblin), mostro (freak, miracle, monster, monstrosities, monstrous, ogre), demonio (daemon, demon, devil). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悪魔 (demon, devil, evil spirit, Satan). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あくま (demon, devil, evil spirit, Satan). (various references) | |
Manx | flaiee (imp). (various references) | |
Norwegian | djevel (devil). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iendfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fanático (bigoted, churchy, fanatic, fanatical, rabid, zealot), viciado (addict, addicted, dope fiend, vicious), inimigo (adversary, averse, enemy, foe, hostile, inimical), espírito maligno, diabólico (demoniacal, demonic, deuced, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistofelian, satanic), demônio (archenemy, archfiend, belial, daemon, demon, deuce, dickens, genius, poltergeist). (various references) | |
Romanian | satana (devil, Lucifer, prince of darkness), persoanã diabolicã, maniac (crank, cranky, maggot, maniac, maniacial, phrenetic), diavol (bogy, demon, devil, dragon, ghostly enemy, imp, limb, old scratch, pickle, the evil one, the old serpent), demon (demon, devil, imp, mischievous spirit, spirit). (various references) | |
Russian | изверг (hell-hound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | strastan ljubitelj, đavo (belial, deuce, devil, hellhound, satan, scratch: old scratch). (various references) | |
Spanish | fanático (addict, addicted, bigot, bigoted, fanatic, fanatical, hot-brained, hothead, hotheaded, rabid, zealot), entusiasta (addict, buff, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fan, glowing, keen, nut, warm, zealous, zestful), desalmado (heartless, heartlessly, ungiving, unkindly, unscrupulous), demonio (daemon, demon, Deuce, devil, good grief, heck, hell). (various references) | |
Swedish | slav (addict, bondman, helot, slav, slave), odjur (beast, brute, monster, monstrosity, ogre), fantast (aficionado, devotee, faddist, fan, fantast, highflier, highflyer, romancer), djävul (Beelzebub, devil), demon (Belial, daemon, demon, demos, jinn, jinnee). (various references) | |
Thai | ปีศาจ (evil, goblin). (various references) | |
Turkish | zalim adam, uzman (adept, authority, connoisseur, dab, dabster, Don, expert, judge, oracle, professional, proficient, regular, specialist, technician), tiryaki (addict, addicted, confirmed, inveterate), kötü ruh (black soul, evil genius, evil spirit), canavar ruhlu kimse, şeytan (adversary, arch fiend, artful, cloven foot, cloven hoof, crafty, cunning, daemon, demon, devil, old harry, old nick, prince of darkness, sly, the arch-enemy, the devil, the evil one, the old dragon, the old enemy, the tempter, wily), çılgınca hoşlanan kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | недолюдок, злий дух, лиходій (cannibal, felon, malefactor, miscreant, villain), біс (bis, devil, encore), диявол (demon, devil, dragon, enemy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quỷ sứ kẻ tàn ác, ma quỷ (bogey, bogle, bogy, daemon, demon, sprite), kẻ hung ác, ác ôn người thích. (various references) | |
Welsh | ellyll, dera (the staggers). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fiend": fiendish, fiendishly, fiendishness, fiendishnesses, fiends. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fiend": archfiend. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fiend": archfiends. (additional references) | |
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"Fiend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afien, faind, fazenda, feeny, feien, fein, feind, fendi, fendo, Fendt, fenmd, fied, fien, Fiene, fiened, fieno, fient, Fienta, fieny, finde, findi, findl, findo, fiten, fixen, flend, foen, foined, frend, fyen, fynd, fynde, ifed, iiand. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fiend" (pronounced fē"nd) |
| 3 | -ē" n d | careened, cleaned, convened, demeaned, intervened, leaned, machined, gleaned, greened, preened, reconvened, screened, weaned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fined. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-n" | |
-1 letter: defi, deni, dine, fend, find, fine, neif, nide. | |
-2 letters: den, die, din, end, fed, fen, fid, fie, fin. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, ef, en, id, if, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-n" | |
+1 letter: define, fadein, fiends, finder, finked, finned, foined, friend, knifed, redfin, refind. | |
+2 letters: affined, confide, defiant, defined, definer, defines, defying, densify, effendi, faciend, fadeins, fainted, fancied, feeding, feigned, feinted, fending, feuding, finders, flinder, flinted, friends, fringed, infidel, infield, infixed, infused, redfins, refinds, refined, sniffed, unfired, unfixed, unified. | |
+3 letters: befriend, canfield, coffined, confided, confider, confides, confined, defacing, defaming, defiance, defiling, definers, defining, definite, defusing, defuzing, deifying, denazify, diolefin, edifying, effendis, enfilade, faciends, feedings, fielding, fiendish, finagled, financed, findable, finessed, fingered, finialed, finished, finitude, fledging, flinched, flinders, frenzied, friended, friendly, fulmined, identify, ignified, infected, infecund, inferred, infested, infidels, infields, infirmed, inflamed, inflated, inflexed, infolded, infolder, informed, infrared, ingulfed, minified, nazified, nidified, nidifies, niffered, ninefold, notified, panfried, redefine, sniffled, tiffined, unfilled, unfilmed, unfished, unfitted, unfoiled, ungifted, unrifled, unsifted, vinified. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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