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- [reyth]
- /reɪθ/
- /reɪθ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [reyth]
- /reɪθ/
Definitions of wraith word
- noun wraith an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death. 1
- noun wraith a visible spirit. 1
- noun wraith A ghost or ghostlike image of someone, esp. one seen shortly before or after their death. 1
- noun wraith ghost, spirit 1
- countable noun wraith A wraith is a ghost. 0
- noun wraith the apparition of a person living or thought to be alive, supposed to appear around the time of his death 0
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Origin of wraith
First appearance:
before 1505 One of the 26% oldest English words
1505-15; originally Scots; origin uncertain
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Parts of speech for Wraith
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
wraith popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 78% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for wraith
noun wraith
- ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- spectre — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
Antonyms for wraith
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