noun hence, satan.
2. lucifer ·noun a genus of free-swimming macruran crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
3. lucifer ·noun the planet venus, when appearing as the morning star;
applied in isaiah by a metaphor to a king of babylon.
4. lucifer ·noun a match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction;
called also lucifer match, and locofoco. ·see locofoco.