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Meanings of lucifer in English

Portuguese
satanás
Catalan
satan
Spanish
diablo

(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.

      satanás
      Portuguese
      estrela do dia
      Catalan
      estrella del matí

      A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky.

            estrela do dia
            Portuguese
            fósforo
            Catalan
            llumí
            Spanish
            cerilla

            Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction.

                  fósforo
                  Usage of lucifer in English
                  1
                  There was coal-smoke and a taste of lucifer matches in the air.
                  The Mark of Cain
                  2
                  I struck a lucifer match and held it to the boy's face.
                  A Hero of Our Time
                  3
                  Taking a lucifer match in her hand she approached the fuse.
                  Condensed Novels
                  4
                  The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
                  Despair's Last Journey
                  5
                  She groped her way to the taper and the lucifer matches.
                  North and South
                  6
                  I recollect the first lucifer matches, and the wonder of them.
                  An Autobiography
                  7
                  It would be entirely safe, even if it were built of lucifer matches.
                  What Is Man? and Other Essays
                  8
                  I lighted another lucifer, just as she hesitated at the step.
                  54-40 or Fight
                  9
                  A lucifer flared and the crusaders scattered away from their handiwork.
                  Anno Dracula
                  10
                  She held the pocket lucifer high above her head, speaking quietly.
                  The hunchback assignments
                  11
                  Alvez held him back, at the same time placing a lucifer in his hand.
                  Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
                  12
                  The Moth is now pinned down in a lucifer match box, awaiting your inspection.
                  Two Suffolk Friends
                  13
                  He consulted his watch once more by the flickering light of a lucifer match.
                  Despair's Last Journey
                  14
                  Any fool can stick a lucifer match into a haystack and make a blaze.
                  Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
                  15
                  To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?
                  The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
                  16
                  I only caught a glimpse of him by the feeble light of a lucifer match.
                  The Green Mummy