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Definition of demigod
1 : a mythological being with more power than a mortal but less than a god
2 : a person so outstanding as to seem to approach the divine the demigods of jazz
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Recent Examples of demigod from the Web
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Disney’s 2016 animated adventure comedy is about an ancient Polynesian chieftain’s daughter who seeks out the demigod Maui to stop a terrible curse.
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Diana, the demigod superhero played by Gal Gadot, is from Themyscira — the female utopia described above.
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Behind him on the wall, a goat with a long beard was painted cleverly so that its horns meshed seamlessly with the building's toilet pipes, suggesting a demonic steampunk demigod.
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The strangest thing about covering a rock star death is that a funeral marks the day where a seemingly omnipresent demigod, someone who appears to defy the limitations of existence by being truly extraordinary, is rendered ultimately human.
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The strangest thing about covering a rock star death is that a funeral marks the day where a seemingly omnipresent demigod, someone who appears to defy the limitations of existence by being truly extraordinary, is rendered ultimately human.
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The strangest thing about covering a rock star death is that a funeral marks the day where a seemingly omnipresent demigod, someone who appears to defy the limitations of existence by being truly extraordinary, is rendered ultimately human.
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Several demigods who usually resented collaboration but decided to go with it this one time came up with a solution: instead of just a plain, vanilla void, an infinite stream of meaning-objects would be infinitely created and extinguished.
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The Spanish artist, somewhat in shadow after his death in 1660, became a demigod to the young painters who brought modern art into being in 1860s Paris, and who found an ancestor in his flat spaces and hard eye.
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First Known Use of demigod
1530
DEMIGOD Defined for English Language Learners
demigod
playDefinition of demigod for English Language Learners
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: an extremely impressive or important person : a person who seems like a god in some way
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: a person in mythology who has some of the powers of a god : a being in mythology who is part god and part human
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