Lamia Definition

lāmē-ə
lamias
noun
lamias
Any of a class of monsters, half woman and half serpent, supposed to lure people, esp. children, in order to suck their blood.
Webster's New World
A female demon or vampire.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A city in Greece.

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Other Word Forms of Lamia

Noun

Singular:
lamia
Plural:
lamias

Origin of Lamia

  • From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lamia).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin from Greek

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lamia Sentence Examples

  • He compares her story with that of Lamia, who, after her children had been slain by Zeus, retired to a lonely cave and carried off and killed the children of others.

  • The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827) and a dramatic romance, Lamia, published later, belong to this time.

  • The geographical name is sometimes extended over all these branches, and so reaches from Aetolia to the Gulf of Lamia.

  • Thence it crosses that lake in a straight line and afterwards the Ruwenzori to its highest point, Margherita peak, whence it follows the Lamia River to its junction with the Semliki.

  • This is a purely fanciful name, but Lamus takes us into a religious world where we can trace the origin of the legend, and observe the god of an older religion becoming the subject of fairy tales (see Lamia) in a later period.

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Words Starting With

LLALAM

Words Ending With

AIAMIA

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Words Starting With L and Ending With A

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