SPRITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sprite mean? 

• SPRITE (noun)
  The noun SPRITE has 1 sense:

1. a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

  Familiarity information: SPRITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

faerie; faery; fairy; fay; sprite

Hypernyms ("sprite" is a kind of...):

spiritual being; supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sprite"):

brownie; elf; gremlin; hob; imp; pixie; pixy ((folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous)

fairy godmother (a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine)

dwarf; gnome (a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure)

Morgan le Fay ((Arthurian legend) a wicked enchantress who was the half sister and enemy of King Arthur)

Puck; Robin Goodfellow (a mischievous sprite of English folklore)

Oberson ((Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore)

Titania ((Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore)

tooth fairy (a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out)

water nymph; water spirit; water sprite (a fairy that inhabits water)

 Context examples 

If that will be your married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He continued to send for me punctually the moment the clock struck seven; though when I appeared before him now, he had no such honeyed terms as love and darling on his lips: the best words at my service were provoking puppet, malicious elf, sprite, changeling, &c.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)