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# fiend

«fiend» in Mova's school dictionary: **a devil or wicked spirit in old stories** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (fiend, fiends)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fiend is a devil or wicked spirit in old stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiend/#m1)

2) (informal) A fiend is someone who is very keen on something: a chess fiend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales fiends are wicked spirits who try to trick or harm the hero

### examples

- The fiends would not let him go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiend/#x1)
- See me off, Marusia, says the Fiend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiend/#x2)
- Wait a bit! said one of the fiends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiend/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fiend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.