Word of the Day: Wraith
Pronunciation: [rayth]
Definition:
noun: 1. A ghost. 2. An apparition of a person supposed to appear just before that person's death. 3. An insubstantial copy of something: shadow.
Origin: From Scottish. Earliest documented use: 1513.
Usage: The people who once lived here believed that their world was populated by wraiths and witches.
Synonyms: apparition, bogey, familiar spirit, materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, ghost
Pronunciation: [rayth]
noun: 1. A ghost. 2. An apparition of a person supposed to appear just before that person's death. 3. An insubstantial copy of something: shadow.
Origin: From Scottish. Earliest documented use: 1513.
Usage: The people who once lived here believed that their world was populated by wraiths and witches.
Synonyms: apparition, bogey, familiar spirit, materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter or spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, ghost
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