spirit

IPA: spˈɪrʌt

The soul of a person or other creature.
A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
Enthusiasm.
The manner or style of something.
Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
(usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
Energy; ardour.
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
(often in the plural) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state.
(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
(dyeing) Stannic chloride.
(Christianity) Synonym of Holy Spirit.

To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
Sometimes followed by up: to animate with vigour; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit.

Examples of "spirit" in Sentences

The spirit is intangible.
There are free spirits and fettered souls.
The spirit was unified with the soul of children.
His spirit is pure and clean, his soul never wearied.
Ray was imbued with the spirit of communism in early life.
I allude to the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty.
His best works are in the spirit of the victory of life and flourishing.
A kindred spirit, he feeds and befriends the troubled souls of the street.
Every soul seemed to commune with the spirits of another world as by orisons.
There is nothing to obtrude the thought of the spirit, in which life, freedom, and individuality were crushed out of the world.