wraith

noun

ˈrāth How to pronounce wraith (audio)
Definition of wraithnext
as in ghost
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people the people who once lived here believed that their world was populated by wraiths and witches

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Recent Examples of wraith On his journey, Geralt slices up several soldiers, a giant, ogre-like creature and a ghostly wraith. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025 In the footage, Geralt approaches the domain of a wraith and battles the skeletal specter, culminating in a heart-ripping moment. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025 In the video above, Geralt goes head-to-spectral-head with a wraith. — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2025 Chen is the wraith-like heart of this story, but her character strains belief even in a shaky hand of a movie that operates with all the internal logic of a gambling addiction. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wraith
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraith
  1. ghost
  2. apparition
  3. spirit
  4. phantom
Noun
  • Spirit Airlines' ghost planes The problems with young retirements predate Spirit's collapse.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In 2026, the gemlike Brooklyn venue lent Kushner’s project a magical quality, turning the audience into ghosts from the future, eavesdropping on the fall of the Weimar Republic but unable to intervene.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of ghost
Noun
  • The location was a former sugarcane plantation notorious for cruelty, and accounts of apparitions in the water are a reminder of this history.
    — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
  • After the vocal chorus, Astaire sees an apparition—Pan, costumed in Halloween drag.
    — David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of apparition
Noun
  • In the spirit of B-movie icons like Roger Corman, the film was shot in four days for $40,000 in order to celebrate Chris LaMartina’s 40th birthday.
    — William Earl, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In that spirit, three articles offering guidance across the course of a woman’s life were published Monday in Circulation.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of spirit
Noun
  • As the frightening phantom of Frank the Bunny warns, this parallel reality has a ticking clock that’ll result in its imminent collapse in just 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Fadal brought up her own phantom smells during a recent podcast conversation with Andrea Donsky, a nutritionist who’s written about and conducted research on this symptom.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of phantom

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