1. lamia - Noun
2. Lamia - Proper noun
A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI ignore religions,” said Brawne Lamia. "I do not succumb to them. Dan Simmons
Another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. Source: Internet
Ashton 1997 p. 115 There is also a strong connection between the idea of retreating into the imagination found within Keats's Lamia and in Tennyson's "Palace of Art". Source: Internet
In Montreal's tight-knit Lebanese community, almost everyone knows someone overseas who has been injured or killed in Tuesday's tragedy, according to Lamia Charlebois, who runs a Facebook page for the community. Source: Internet
Gittings (1968), 504 The final volume Keats lived to see, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, was eventually published in July 1820. Source: Internet
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Servilius (or, less frequently, year 756 Ab urbe condita ). Source: Internet