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Definition: Succubus |
SuccubusNoun1. A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Succubus \Suc"cu*bus\, noun; plural Succubi. [See Succuba.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SuccubusSynonym: succuba (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This legend was an explanation for the phenomena of wet dreams and sleep paralysis.
Lilith and the Lilin (Jewish), Belili (Sumerian) and Rusalka (Slavic) were succubi.
Compare: incubus.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Succubus."
| 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; Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman; fury, harpy; Friar Rush. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Succubus |
| English words defined with "succubus": Succubi. (references) |
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| "Succubus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Succubus" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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| 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 "succubus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | succubus, succuba. (various references) | ||||
German | Succubus. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uccubussay | ||||
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Words beginning with "succubus": succubuses. (additional references) | |
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"Succubus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aucubas, succub, succubis, succubuc, succubuss, succumbus, sucubus. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "succubus" (pronounced 'Suc"cu*bus'): Aerobus, Arcubus, bus, Carabus, Choriambus, Circumbendibus, iambus, INCUBUS, Jacobus, Minibus, Omnibus, Phoebus, rhombus, Rubus, Strombus, thrombus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-s-s-u-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cuscus. | |
-4 letters: buss, cubs, cuss, subs. | |
-5 letters: bus, cub, sub. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-s-s-u-u-u" | |
+2 letters: succubuses. | |
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