noun
Meaning 1
Spirit, enthusiasm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
esprit
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɛsˈpɹiː/
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rhymes with -iː
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CMU ARPABET: EH0 S P R IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A wit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Liveliness, or active mind and spirit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
liveliness of mind or spirit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French esprit (“spirit”). Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and spright, possibly also spree.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: дух (duh) — spirit, enthusiasm
- Finnish: henki — spirit, enthusiasm
- Finnish: henkevyys — spirit, enthusiasm
- German: Esprit — spirit, enthusiasm
- Romanian: spirit — spirit, enthusiasm
- Russian: дух (dux) — spirit, enthusiasm
- Russian: энтузиа́зм (entuziázm) — spirit, enthusiasm
- Bulgarian: ум (um) — wit
- Bulgarian: интелигентност (inteligentnost) — wit
- Finnish: henkevyys — wit
- Finnish: älykkyys — wit
- Finnish: henkevyys — liveliness, or active mind and spirit
- Finnish: eloisuus — liveliness, or active mind and spirit
- German: Esprit — liveliness, or active mind and spirit
- Russian: жи́вость (žívostʹ) — liveliness, or active mind and spirit