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What (who) is spirit - definition
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Spirits; Spitir; Spriti; Spiritual Fauna; Spirit (album); SPIRIT; Spirit (Album); Spirit (song); Sperrit; Spirit (film); Spirits (disambiguation); Spirits (album); Spirits (song); Spirit (disambiguation)
spirit
I
n.
vigor
enthusiasm
1) to display, show spirit
2) to catch the spirit (of the times)
3) to break smb.'s spirit (her spirit was broken)
4) (a) civic; class; college; competitive; dauntless, hardy; ecumenical; fighting; partisan; patriotic; rebellious; religious; school; scientific; team spirit
5) a guiding; moving spirit
6) (misc.) a spirit of good will pervaded the conversation
supernatural being, ghost
7) to conjure up, evoke a spirit
8) an evil; holy spirit
soul
9) a kindred spirit
10) in spirit (in body and in spirit)
attitude
11) in a spirit (in a spirit of cooperation)
II
v. (P; tr.) he was spirited off to prison
spirit
(spirits, spiriting, spirited)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Your spirit is the part of you that is not physical and that consists of your character and feelings.
The human spirit is virtually indestructible...
N-SING
see also kindred spirit
2.
A person's spirit is the non-physical part of them that is believed to remain alive after their death.
His spirit has left him and all that remains is the shell of his body.
= soul
N-COUNT: usu poss N
3.
A spirit is a ghost or supernatural being.
...protection against evil spirits.
N-COUNT
see also Holy Spirit
4.
Spirit is the courage and determination that helps people to survive in difficult times and to keep their way of life and their beliefs.
She was a very brave girl and everyone who knew her admired her spirit.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
Spirit is the liveliness and energy that someone shows in what they do.
They played with spirit.
N-UNCOUNT
6.
The spirit in which you do something is the attitude you have when you are doing it.
Their problem can only be solved in a spirit of compromise...
N-SING
7.
A particular kind of spirit is the feeling of loyalty to a group that is shared by the people who belong to the group.
There is a great sense of team spirit among the British Olympic squad...
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft n N
8.
A particular kind of spirit is the set of ideas, beliefs, and aims that are held by a group of people.
...the real spirit of the Labour movement.
N-SING
9.
The spirit of something such as a law or an agreement is the way that it was intended to be interpreted or applied.
The requirement for work permits violates the spirit of the 1950 treaty.
N-SING: the N of n
10.
You can refer to a person as a particular kind of spirit if they show a certain characteristic or if they show a lot of enthusiasm in what they are doing.
I like to think of myself as a free spirit...
N-COUNT: usu adj N
11.
Your spirits are your feelings at a particular time, especially feelings of happiness or unhappiness.
At supper, everyone was in high spirits...
N-PLURAL
12.
If someone or something is spirited away, or if they are spirited out of somewhere, they are taken from a place quickly and secretly without anyone noticing. (WRITTEN)
He was spirited away and probably murdered...
His parents had spirited him away to the country...
It is possible that he has been spirited out of the country.
VERB: be V-ed away, V n away, be V-ed prep/adv
13.
Spirits are strong alcoholic drinks such as whisky and gin.
N-PLURAL
14.
Spirit or spirits is an alcoholic liquid that is used as a fuel, for cleaning things, or for other purposes. There are many kinds of spirit.
N-UNCOUNT
Spirit
·noun Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, ·etc.
II. Spirit ·noun Stannic chloride. ·see under Stannic.
III. Spirit ·noun A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. ·cf. Tincture.
IV. Spirit ·noun Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
V. Spirit ·noun Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
VI. Spirit ·noun Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
VII. Spirit ·noun A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
VIII. Spirit ·noun Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
IX. Spirit ·noun Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
X. Spirit ·noun Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an Elf.
XI. Spirit ·vt To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to Kidnap;
- often with away, or off.
XII. Spirit ·noun One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
XIII. Spirit ·noun Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine):
- often in the plural.
XIV. Spirit ·noun Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state;
- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
XV. Spirit ·noun The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
XVI. Spirit ·noun Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
XVII. Spirit ·vt To animate with vigor; to Excite; to Encourage; to Inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men;
- sometimes followed by up.
XVIII. Spirit ·noun Intent; real meaning;
- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
Examples of use of spirit
1. This includes the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of self–reliance, the spirit of overcoming difficulties and the spirit of revolutionary optimism.
2. This is a spirit of conciliation, we have been told, the spirit of the disengagement.
3. He named their fighting spirit "Kanggye spirit" and made the whole country learn from it.
4. This spirit also reflects the collectivist spirit of the working class in a thorough–going way.
5. It is a spirit of freedom – a spirit of love and unity.