Usually means: Mythical creature, often female vampire.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lamia, lamia: Merriam-Webster
  2. lamia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Lamia, lamia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lamia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lamia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lamia, lamia: Wordnik
  7. Lamia, lamia: Wiktionary
  8. lamia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lamia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lamia, lamia: Dictionary.com
  11. lamia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. LaMia, Lamia (Basque mythology), Lamia (city), Lamia (daughter of Poseidon), Lamia (disambiguation), Lamia (given name), Lamia (mythology), Lamia (poem), Lamia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Lamia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lamia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. lamia: Rhymezone
  16. Lamia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. lamia: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. lamia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. lamia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Lamia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Lamia: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Lamia (city), Lamia (disambiguation), Lamia (mythology), Lamia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lamia, lamia: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lamia: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lamia)

▸ noun:  A city in Greece.
▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.

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vampire, Larissa, Lapith, Aeolia, Lysithea, Hippodameia, Aegina, Limos, limoniad, Aigaleo, more...

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LaMia Flight 2933, PAS Lamia 1964, Jenna Lamia, Lamia bint Majid Al Saud, more...

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Similar:
vampire, Larissa, Lapith, Aeolia, Lysithea, Hippodameia, Aegina, Limos, limoniad, Aigaleo, more...

Phrases:
LaMia Flight 2933, PAS Lamia 1964, Jenna Lamia, Lamia bint Majid Al Saud, more...

Adjectives:
celebrated, dear, beautiful, ancient, poor, original, many, athens, long, fair, lovely

Colors:
    crimson,     midnight blue,     emerald,     obsidian,     amethyst, more...



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