daemon
Example Sentences
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Lyra lives in a universe parallel to our own, where people have a daemon - a companion spirit in animal form.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
And in this 16-year-old story, he prefigured the painful estrangement between his heroine and her daemon that he had no inkling would feature in a future novel about Lyra’s adulthood.
From Slate • Oct. 14, 2020
Lyra is no longer a child but a troubled young adult who finds herself estranged from her daemon Pantalaimon — effectively at war with herself.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy comes to the small screen as a series set in a world wherein every human being has an animal daemon, a manifestation of their soul.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2019
The Butler bowed and hastened out, his daemon trotting submissively at his heels.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
