Definition of FIEND

fiend

Plural: fiends

Noun

  • A demon or evil spirit; an excessively zealous person.
  • a cruel wicked and inhuman person
  • an evil supernatural being
  • a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); --Winston Churchill
  • A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
  • A very evil person.
  • An enemy; a foe.
  • The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.
  • An addict or fanatic.

Verb

  • To yearn; to be desperate.

Examples

  • dope fiend
  • He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.
  • The Words With Friends FIEND played ’QUINTUPLE’ for an impossible score.
  • We waited for our fiend to arrive.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.
Compare Old Norse fjándi (Icelandic fjandi, Danish fjende, Norwegian fiende, Swedish fiende, West Frisian fijân, Low German Feend, Fiend, Dutch vijand, German Feind, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fijands)), with all of them meaning foe. The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit पीयति (pī́yati, “(he) reviles”)).

Scrabble Score: 9

fiend: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fiend: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fiend: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

fiend: valid Words With Friends Word