Crossword-Solution: SPIRIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spirit | n. | Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. |
| Spirit | n. | A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing. |
| Spirit | n. | Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter. |
| Spirit | n. | The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material. |
| Spirit | n. | Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body. |
| Spirit | n. | Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf. |
| Spirit | n. | Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. |
| Spirit | n. | One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit. |
| Spirit | n. | Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits. |
| Spirit | n. | Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like. |
| Spirit | n. | Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities. |
| Spirit | n. | Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural. |
| Spirit | n. | Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. |
| Spirit | n. | A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture. |
| Spirit | n. | Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment). |
| Spirit | n. | Stannic chloride. See under Stannic. |
| Spirit | v. t. | To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up. |
| Spirit | v. t. | To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPIRIT (5)
This seemed to Wendy rather forward for a first meeting, and she told him with spirit that he was not captain in her house.
And still later, when the Autumn Changed the long, green leaves to yellow, And the soft and juicy kernels Grew like wampum hard and yellow, Then the ripened ears he gathered, Stripped the withered husks from off them, As he once had stripped the wrestler, Gave the first Feast of Mondamin, And made known unto the people This new gift of the Great Spirit.
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th’ upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th’ Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men.
The Hound looked up and said, “It was not my fault master: my spirit was as good as ever, but I could not help my infirmities.
Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.
Quotes with SPIRIT (3)
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, KC Star, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 160 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).