Banshee

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family.
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  • n. In Irish folklore, a female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death. Originally a fairy woman singing a caoineadh (lament) for recently-deceased members of the O’Grady, the O’Neill, the O’Brien, the O’Connor, and the Kavanagh families, translations into English made a distinction between the banshee and other fairy folk that the original language and original stories do not seem to have, and thus the current image of the banshee.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice, as under the windows of the house.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A type of female fairy believed in Ireland and some parts of Scotland to attach herself to a particular house, and to foretell by each appearance the death of one of the family. Also benshie, benshi.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
    • Equivalent
    banshie   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disembodied spirit    spirit   
    Cross Reference
    sidhe   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab    Ac    Ag    Agee    Aimee   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ear-piercing    bloodcurdling    blood-freezing    eldritch    full-throated   
     
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