Demogorgon

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proper noun

A pagan god or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name was taboo.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A pagan god or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name was taboo.

    Demogorgon is a grammatical error, become god.

    Survival of the Pagan Gods

    1972 [1940], Jean Seznec, translated by Sessions, Barbara, La Survivance des dieux antiques [Survival of the Pagan Gods] (Bollingen Series), Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, pages 221–222
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    […] and by them ſtood / Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name / of Demogorgon […]

    1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 963–965

    But we afterwards find her in her proper station, subject, with the Fatè and Witches, to the redoubtable Demogorgon.

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 240
nounDemogorgon (plural Demogorgons)

plural Demogorgons

  1. A manufactured horror; a Frankenstein's monster.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
gorgon

Origin

Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek, most likely actually invented by a Christian scholar c. 350–400 C.E. The origins of the name are uncertain, partly because the figure itself was possibly of imaginary coinage. Various theories suggest that the name is derived from the Greek words daemon (“spirit”, given the Christian connotations of “demon” in the early Middle Ages)—or, less likely demos (“people”)—and Gorgon or γοργός (gorgós, “grim”). A less accepted theory claims that it is derived from a variation of “demiurge”.

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Translations

Spanish Demogorgon
  • Demogorgonpagan god or demon associated with the underworld
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APA

Demogorgon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Demogorgon

MLA

“Demogorgon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Demogorgon. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Demogorgon,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Demogorgon.

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