geist
/ɡaɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A ghost, an apparition.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word."
- "[...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist, a complex function of Freud's worldview."
- "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."
- "However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding."
- "[...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist, principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Geist
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡaɪst/