'Wraith' definitions:
Definition of 'wraith'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Wraith'
From: GCIDE
- Wraith \Wraith\, n. [Scot. wraith, warth; probably originally, a guardian angel, from Icel. v["o]r[eth]r a warden, guardian, akin to E. ward. See Ward a guard.] [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- O, hollow wraith of dying fame. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith. --M. G. Lewis. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wraith'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- banshee,
- co-walker,
- control,
- departed spirit,
- disembodied spirit,
- Doppelganger,
- double,
- doubleganger,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- etheric double,
- fantasy,
- fetch,
- figure,
- form,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hant,
- haunt,
- idolum,
- image,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- larva,
- lemures,
- manes,
- Masan,
- materialization,
- oni,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- presence,
- revenant,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- theophany,
- unsubstantiality,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- wildest dream,
- zombie