sprite

Meaning

Noun

• A spirit; a soul; a shade.
• An apparition; ghost
• An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
• A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
• An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
• The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
• Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (genus) (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
• A spayed female ferret.
• Alternative of spright

Related

Similar words

• See goblin

Origin

• From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit, from Latin spiritus. spirit.
• First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.