Definitions for fiend
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre(noun)

   a cruel wicked and inhuman person

2. devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon(noun)

   an evil supernatural being

3. fanatic, fiend(noun)

   a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

   "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fiend(Noun)

   A demon

   Etymology: From feend, from feond. Cognate with Old Norse fjándi (Danish fjende, Swedish fiende), German Feind, Gothic
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2. fiend(Noun)

   A very evil person

   Etymology: From feend, from feond. Cognate with Old Norse fjándi (Danish fjende, Swedish fiende), German Feind, Gothic
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   0343, all of them meaning foe. The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/fijan, to hate. Akin to Sanskrit पियति.

3. fiend(Noun)

   An addict

   a jazz fiend

   Etymology: From feend, from feond. Cognate with Old Norse fjándi (Danish fjende, Swedish fiende), German Feind, Gothic
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   0343, all of them meaning foe. The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/fijan, to hate. Akin to Sanskrit पियति.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiend(noun)

   an implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon

   Etymology: [OE. fend, find, fiend, feond, fiend, foe, AS. fend; akin to OS. fond, D. vijand enemy, OHG. fant, G. feind, Icel. fjnd, Sw. & Dan. fiende, Goth. fijands; orig. p. pr. of a verb meaning to hate, AS. fen, fegan, OHG. fn, Goth. fijan, Skr. py to scorn; prob. akin to E. feud a quarrel. 81. Cf. Foe, Friend.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiend

   Richard "Ricky" Jones, better known by his stage names Fiend or International Jones is an American rapper and producer best known for his time spent with Master P's No Limit Records. Fiend was also briefly a member of DMX's label Ruff Ryders Entertainment, and is currently signed to Jet Life Recordings under Warner Bros.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiend

   fēnd, n. the devil: one actuated by the most intense wickedness or hate.—adj. Fiend′ish, like a fiend; malicious.—n. Fiend′ishness.—adj. Fiend′like, like a fiend: fiendish. [A.S. feónd, pr.p. of feón, to hate; Ger. feind, Dut. vijand.]

Rap Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fiend(verb)

   To be hostile to.

2. fiend(verb)

   To need something badly, most often drugs. But you can also be a fiend for a dope beat. I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine -- Eric B. and Rakim (Microphone Fiend)

3. fiend(verb)

   Obsession

4. fiend(noun)

   Someone who fiends. Says the boy to the fiend: 'What do you mean?' -- Muggs featuring Wyclef Jean (John 3:16)

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Fiend

   Satan; the devil.

   Those children are little fiends.

   Submitted by JP03 on December 28, 2014  

2. fiend

   Fiend (noun) a person that has evil plans.

   Fiend is a demon that can cause disaster or calamity.

   Submitted by pinkss5 on October 21, 2015  

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1. fiend

   Song lyrics by fiend -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by fiend on the Lyrics.com website.

Anagrams for fiend »

1. indef

2. finde

3. fined

How to pronounce fiend?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fiend in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fiend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of fiend in a Sentence

1. John Milton:

   So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant’s plea, excused his devilish deeds.

2. Anuj Somany:

   The people who extend their supporting hand to a person in achieving him a wrong life stand are not his friend but fiend to him only.

3. Robertson Davies:

   To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

4. George Bernard Shaw:

   I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

5. Colley Cibber:

   We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

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