Meaning

3 senses
  1. (obsolete)Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.

  2. (obsolete)A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.

  3. (obsolete)A kind of short arrow.

Origin

Unetymological spelling of sprite. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and espr

Unetymological spelling of sprite. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and esprit.

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Forms

plural: sprights
Singularspright
Pluralsprights

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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