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Geist

//ɡaɪst// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A ghost, an apparition.

    "The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity."

  2. 2
    Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).

    "The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Geist.

Etymology 2

From German Geist (“spirit, ghost, mind”). Doublet of ghost.

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