Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Bible An angelic being who was cast from heaven as punishment for his rebellious pride. Lucifer is traditionally identified with Satan.
- noun The planet Venus in its appearance as the morning star.
- noun A friction match.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The morning star; the planet Venus when she appears in the morning before sunrise : when she follows the sun, or appears in the evening, she is called
Hesperus , or the evening star. Applied by Isaiah figuratively to a king of Babylon. - noun The prince of darkness; Satan. [This use arises from an early opinion that in the above passage from Isaiah reference was made to Satan.]
- noun [lowercase] A match ignitible by friction with any surface, or with a specially prepared surface.
- noun The typical genus of Luciferidæ.
- noun A genus of humming-birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
- noun Hence, Satan.
- noun A match{1} made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also
lucifer match , andlocofoco , now most commonly referred to as afriction match . SeeLocofoco . - noun (Zoöl.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A figure mentioned in Isaiah 14:12, generally identified with
Satan . - proper noun The
planet Venus as thedaystar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
- noun lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- noun a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Prior to 1667, Venus was “female” and the term Lucifer, “lux-fer”, “light bringer” had never been associated with a male entity, and certainly not with a satan.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Prior to 1667, Venus was “female” and the term Lucifer, “lux-fer”, “light bringer” had never been associated with a male entity, and certainly not with a satan.
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For some reason, in this place of darkness and pain, the name Lucifer, “the Light Bearer,” haunts me the most.
Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010
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And this is not to be wondered at, when we consider that even in times more recent and nearer our own, the Romans made an attempt to dedicate the star which we call Lucifer to the name and honour of Caesar.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books Saint Augustine 1887
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London videogame designer Shekhar Subramanium megastar Shah Rukh Khan desperately wants to impress his villain-loving young son Prateek, who likes Iron Maiden and plays online games under the moniker "Lucifer."
Wired Top Stories Cyriaque Lamar 2011
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"'Lucifer' is Latin for light-bearer and refers to th ..."
Boing Boing Charles Platt 2009
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Today the devil, Satan or Lucifer, is an equally omnipotent to God.
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The Devil, Lucifer, is not an earthquake and doesnt exist on Earth.
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Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and — ironically — the Prince of Darkness.
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Lucifer is inspired by the paintings of Alphonse Mucha.
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