OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7982

spirit

/ˈspɪɹɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alma • espíritu • pneuma
The soul of a person or other creature.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the rail…
[…] a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
espíritu • luá
A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
A wandering spirit haunts the island.
He has seen spirits roam the house.
espíritu
Enthusiasm.
School spirit is at an all-time high.
The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble…
onda
The manner or style of something.
In the spirit of forgiveness, we didn't press charges.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to…
alcohol • bebida espirituosa
A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
Another pair of terms which caused some confusion were Spirit of Saturn and Spirit of Venus, names suggesting compounds of lead and copper respectively. Jean Beguin described the p…
CRYSTALS of Venus or of copper, called also vitriol of Venus, is copper reduced into the form of vitriol by spirit of nitre, or by dissolving verdegris in good distilled vinegar, t…
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