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noun wʌɪt dialect, archaic 1A person of a specified kind. he always was an unlucky wight Example sentencesExamples - On every poor wight have I ever had ruth and give them alms for love of thee.
- ‘Sweet Sirs!’ quoth the wight, ‘I'm Edgar the Knight, with my Squire so trusty and kind.’
Synonyms person, individual, creature, fellow, man, woman - 1.1literary A spirit, ghost, or other supernatural being.
Example sentencesExamples - The bell let out an ear-shattering, death-defying ring that sent out ghosts and wights and phantoms and other eerie, unfriendly shadowlings.
- I am sharing food and drink with gods, goddesses, and wights of the land, other spirits, and my spiritual and religious community.
- As well as major offerings to the gods or elves, Heathens like to leave gifts for their domestic hidden folk: the wights who live in their garden and house.
- At such places ancestors, gods, goddesses, wights and other nature/spirit beings are felt most strongly, and communication with these and ‘non-human persons’ (animals, stones and so on) is said to be particularly effective.
- The Demon and the wight were arguing about something, so over the protestations of my comrades, I stole closer that I might hear.
Synonyms ghost, phantom, spectre, apparition, wraith, shadow, presence
Origin Old English wiht 'thing, creature', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wicht 'little child' and German Wicht 'creature'. Rhymes affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wright, write proper nounwʌɪt A shipping forecast area covering the English Channel roughly between the Strait of Dover and the meridian of Poole.
Definition of wight in US English: wightnounwaɪtwīt dialect, archaic 1usually with adjective A person of a specified kind, especially one regarded as unfortunate. he always was an unlucky wight Example sentencesExamples - ‘Sweet Sirs!’ quoth the wight, ‘I'm Edgar the Knight, with my Squire so trusty and kind.’
- On every poor wight have I ever had ruth and give them alms for love of thee.
Synonyms person, individual, creature, fellow, man, woman - 1.1literary A spirit, ghost, or other supernatural being.
Example sentencesExamples - As well as major offerings to the gods or elves, Heathens like to leave gifts for their domestic hidden folk: the wights who live in their garden and house.
- The Demon and the wight were arguing about something, so over the protestations of my comrades, I stole closer that I might hear.
- The bell let out an ear-shattering, death-defying ring that sent out ghosts and wights and phantoms and other eerie, unfriendly shadowlings.
- I am sharing food and drink with gods, goddesses, and wights of the land, other spirits, and my spiritual and religious community.
- At such places ancestors, gods, goddesses, wights and other nature/spirit beings are felt most strongly, and communication with these and ‘non-human persons’ (animals, stones and so on) is said to be particularly effective.
Synonyms ghost, phantom, spectre, apparition, wraith, shadow, presence
Origin Old English wiht ‘thing, creature’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wicht ‘little child’ and German Wicht ‘creature’. |