Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A female being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a goddess.
  • noun A deified woman.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female deity of the minor or inferior order.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A female demigod.

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  • noun feminine form of demigod

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Examples

  • On the other hand, liking her a lot after spending an evening alternating between trying to save her life, kill her, and turn her mind over to an evil demigoddess, is Prince Tarvek, descendant of the fabled Storm King.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • On the other hand, liking her a lot after spending an evening alternating between trying to save her life, kill her, and turn her mind over to an evil demigoddess, is Prince Tarvek, descendant of the fabled Storm King.

    Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) 2008

  • I was home with Elayna for two years, then started working at Castle, a HOA/condo management company where my business cards read "administrative demigoddess".

    So hi. tithenai 2009

  • So the demigoddess actually brings all the bad guys back to life, and the last page of the book literally returns to the first page--hence the ouroboros.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Karen Burnham 2010

  • But, when talking to the demigoddess who helped them with the brother quest, it turns out that the Demon lords are all sad.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Karen Burnham 2010

  • This has many different phases: wandering through a peaceful landscape, holed up in a fort with several hundred men against several thousand, wandering some more and being nice to animals, and mountaineering up to the abode of a demigoddess.

    Stuff that Makes Tolkien Look Like a Radical Progressive Karen Burnham 2010

  • But, when talking to the demigoddess who helped them with the brother quest, it turns out that the Demon lords are all sad.

    Stuff that Makes Tolkien Look Like a Radical Progressive Karen Burnham 2010

  • The situation becomes even more fraught with peril for Kate Daniels, as along with homicidal demigoddess aunts with a posse of undead mage servants, she also has to deal with scheming lycanthropes, bigoted knights, and being left in her undies, holding the dinner by big headed furry boyfriends.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • So the demigoddess actually brings all the bad guys back to life, and the last page of the book literally returns to the first page--hence the ouroboros.

    Stuff that Makes Tolkien Look Like a Radical Progressive Karen Burnham 2010

  • This has many different phases: wandering through a peaceful landscape, holed up in a fort with several hundred men against several thousand, wandering some more and being nice to animals, and mountaineering up to the abode of a demigoddess.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Karen Burnham 2010

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