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How to pronounce spirit in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, tone
Type of ambience, ambiance, atmosphere
Has types hollywood, zeitgeist
Derivation spiritize
Type Words
Synonyms disembodied spirit
Type of supernatural being, spiritual being
Has types familiar spirit, banshie, banshee, genie, zombi, zombi spirit, jinnee, jinni, kachina, zombie, numen, zombie spirit, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, presence, python, silvan, specter, spectre, apparition, sylvan, control, thunderbird, djinn, djinni, djinny, evil spirit, familiar, fantasm
Derivation spiritual
Type Words
Synonyms inspirit, spirit up
Type of animate, invigorate, liven up, enliven, liven


The company spirited him up.
Type Words
Synonyms life, liveliness, sprightliness
Type of brio, spiritedness, invigoration, vivification, animation
Has types ebullience, alacrity, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, airiness, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, muscularity, pep, peppiness, pertness, smartness, vigor, vigour, vim
Derivation spiritize
Type Words
Synonyms emotional state
Type of emotion
Has types gratification, happiness, embarrassment, unhappiness, ecstasy, satisfaction, exaltation, rapture, raptus, state, felicity, transport


he was in good spirits.
his spirit rose.
Type Words
Synonyms heart
Type of disposition, temperament
Type Words
Synonyms intent, purport
Type of signification, import, meaning, significance
Type Words
Type of character, fibre, fiber
Has types courage, cowardice, braveness, bravery, cowardliness, courageousness
Derivation spiritize
Type Words
Type of life principle, vital principle
Has types soul, psyche
Derivation spiritize

Examples of spirit

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The holidays have once again awoken the giving spirit in our students and staff.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Reagan embraced the entrepreneurial spirit, as he saw it empowering individuals.
From the washingtontimes.com
That is why we love American popular culture, the Westerns, the frontier spirit.
From the stltoday.com
Klein also gets into the spirit of his subject when he fashions prosthetic ears.
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She is the spirit of the tango and in this production they are one and the same.
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That and his sense of civic duty and spirit of volunteerism, family members say.
From the dailyherald.com
He won over Giants fans with that love-of-the-game spirit the past couple years.
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Others do justice to the spirit of the originals while adding modern-day twists.
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They refuse to accept that history and the spirit of the times was against them.
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  • The vital principle or animating force within living things
  • Infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"
  • The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
  • A fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character
  • Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
  • Emotional state: 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"
  • The English word spirit (from Latin spiritus "breath") has many differing meanings and connotations, all of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. ...
  • The first season of Alias premiered September 30, 2001 on ABC and concluded May 12, 2002 and was released on DVD in region 1 on September 2, 2003. Guest stars in season one include Sir Roger Moore, Terry O'Quinn, Quentin Tarantino, and Gina Torres.
  • Spirit was an American jazz/hard rock/progressive rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los Angeles, California.