English-Thai Dictionary

wraith

N ภูตผี ปีศาจ  ผี  วิญญา ณ  apparition ghost specter pud-pe-pe-sad

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WRAITH

Wraith, n. Etym: [Scot. wraith, warth; probably originally, a guardian angel, from Icel. vörthr a warden, guardian, akin to E. ward. See Ward a guard. ]

 

1. An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. [Scot. ] She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith. Sir W. Scott. O, hollow wraith of dying fame. Tennyson.

 

2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith. M. G. Lewis.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

wraith

wraith |rāTH reɪθ | ▶noun a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, esp. one seen shortly before or after their death. • used in similes and metaphors to describe a pale, thin, or insubstantial person or thing: heart attacks had reduced his mother to a wraith. • literary a wisp or faint trace of something: a sea breeze was sending a gray wraith of smoke up the slopes. DERIVATIVES wraith like |-ˌlīk |adjective ORIGIN early 16th cent. (originally Scots ): of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

wraith

wraith |reɪθ | ▶noun a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death. • used in reference to a pale, thin, or insubstantial person or thing: heart attacks had reduced his mother to a wraith. • literary a wisp or faint trace of something: a sea breeze was sending a grey wraith of smoke up the slopes. DERIVATIVES wraithlike adjective ORIGIN early 16th cent. (originally Scots ): of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

wraith

wraith noun from a gray and billowy fog the wraith did appear: ghost, specter, spirit, phantom, apparition, manifestation; informal spook; literary shade, phantasm.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

wraith

wraith noun ghost, spectre, spirit, phantom, apparition, manifestation, vision, shadow, presence, poltergeist, supernatural being; Scottish & Irish bodach; W. Indian duppy; informal spook; literary shade, visitant, revenant, phantasm, wight; rare eidolon, manes, lemures.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

wraith

wraith /reɪθ /名詞 C 1 生き霊 〘人の死の前後に現れるという 〙; ｟文 ｠(一般に )幽霊 (→ghost ).2 やせ (こけ )た人 .