daemon

About 0.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A minor deity or divinity.
2. noun A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
3. noun An idea depicted as an entity.
4. noun Archaic spelling of demon.
5. noun A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

Similar words

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Word family

daemons demon