Usually means: Devilish character from German folklore.
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  1. mephistopheles: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mephistopheles: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mephistopheles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mephistopheles: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Mephistopheles: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mephistopheles: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mephistopheles, mephistopheles: Wordnik
  8. Mephistopheles, mephistopheles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mephistopheles: Wiktionary
  10. Mephistopheles: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Mephistopheles: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mephistopheles: Dictionary.com
  13. Mephistopheles: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mephistopheles (Dungeons & Dragons), Mephistopheles (disambiguation), Mephistopheles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mephistopheles: Rhymezone
  16. mephistopheles: FreeDictionary.org
  17. mephistopheles: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Mephistopheles: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Mephistopheles: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Mephistopheles: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mephistopheles)

▸ noun:  The Devil to whom Faust sold his soul in the legend.
▸ noun:  A fiendish person, especially one who tricks someone into following a destructive or disastrous course of action; a tempter.

Similar:
Faust, Mephisto, Belphegor, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Memnoch, Asmodeus, Devil, lord of the flies, Astaroth, more...

Opposite:
God, angel, saint

Phrases:
Mephistopheles and Margaretta, Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture, more...

Adjectives:
female, modern, own, miniature, plausible, young, fed, mache, veritable, polished, very


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Similar:
Faust, Mephisto, Belphegor, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Memnoch, Asmodeus, Devil, lord of the flies, Astaroth, more...

Opposite:
God, angel, saint

Phrases:
Mephistopheles and Margaretta, Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture, more...

Adjectives:
female, modern, own, miniature, plausible, young, fed, mache, veritable, polished, very



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