ˈsāt ə n also -tən noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Middle English Satan, Sathan, from Old English Satan, Satanas, from Late Latin, from Greek, from Hebrew śāṭān devil, adversary
1. also sata·nas ˈsad.ənəs, ˈsāt ə n- : devil I 1
2.
a. obsolete : a minion of the archfiend
the very places from which the Satans by transgression fell — John Bunyan
b. : a wicked person : fiend
that villainous abominable misleader of youth … that old white-bearded Satan — Shakespeare