wraith

wraith

W0234700 (rāth)n.1. An apparition of someone that is believed to appear as a portent just before that person's death.2. The ghost of a dead person.3. Something faint or insubstantial: "The wraith of a hollow laugh issued silently from his parted lips" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).

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wraith

(reɪθ) n1. (Alternative Belief Systems) the apparition of a person living or thought to be alive, supposed to appear around the time of his death2. (Alternative Belief Systems) a ghost or any apparition3. an insubstantial copy of something4. something pale, thin, and lacking in substance, such as a column of smoke[C16: Scottish, of unknown origin] ˈwraithˌlike adj

wraith

(reɪθ)

n. 1. an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death. 2. a visible spirit. [1505–15; originally Scots]

Thesaurus

Noun

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wraith - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"ghost, specter, spectre, spook, shadefantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

wraith

noun ghost, spirit, shade (literary), phantom, spectre, spook (informal), apparition, revenant, eidolon She believed herself to have been visited by wraiths from the afterlife.

wraith

nounA supernatural being, such as a ghost:apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant.Informal: spook.Regional: haunt.

Translations

fantasma