Sprite

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Sprite, n. [OE. sprit, F. esprit, fr. L. spiritus. See Spirit, and cf. Sprightly.].

•  A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.  [1913 Webster]

  "Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite."  [1913 Webster]
•  An elf; a fairy; a goblin.  [1913 Webster]
•  The green woodpecker, or yaffle.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sprite, n. an elf, fairy, or goblin.

Etymology

ME f. sprit var. of SPIRIT

THESAURUS

Sprite

Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Dingbelle, Fifinella, Finnbeara, Hob, Hobgoblin, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Puck, Titania, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad fairy, bad peri, banshee, brownie, cluricaune, control, departed spirit, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk, eidolon, elf, erlking, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin, grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum, immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, little devil, manes, materialization, oni, ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pixie, poltergeist, pooka, presence, puca, puck, pwca, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sylph, sylphid, theophany, tokoloshe, unsubstantiality, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, young devil, zombie

ROGET THESAURUS

Sprite

Jupiter

N Jupiter, god, goddess, heathen gods and goddesses, deva, Jupiter, Jove, pantheon, Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas, water nymph, wood nymph, Yama, Varuna, Zeus, Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha, Isis, Osiris, Ra, Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth, Thor, Odin, Mumbo Jumbo, good genius, tutelary genius, demiurge, familiar, sibyl, fairy, fay, sylph, sylphid, Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd, Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite, denizens of the air, pixy, mythology, heathen-mythology, fairy-mythology, Lempriere, folklore, god-like, fairy-like, sylph-like, sylphic, you moonshine revelers and shades of night.

Demon

N demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.