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say it: SPIR-uht
spirit is a noun and verb meaning "the vital principle or animating force within living things". It carries 9 recorded senses.
the vital principle or animating force within living things
any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)
“his emotional state depended on her opinion”
“he was in good spirits”
“his spirit rose”
animation and energy in action or expression
“it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it”
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
“he had a change of heart”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spirit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.