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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Obsolete A living being; a creature.
  2. adj. Archaic Valorous; brave.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person, whether male or female; a human being: as, an unlucky wight.
  2. n. A preternatural, unearthly, or uncanny creature; an elf, sprite, witch, or the like.
  3. n. A space of time; a whit; a while.
  4. Having warlike prowess; valiant; courageous; strong and active; agile; nimble; swift.
  5. n. A Middle English form of weight.
  6. n. See wite.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic A living creature, especially a human being.
  2. n. paganism A being of one of the Nine Worlds of heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
  3. n. poetic A ghost or other supernatural entity.
  4. n. fantasy A wraith-like creature.
  5. adj. Brave, valorous, strong.
  6. adj. Strong; stout; active.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete Weight.
  2. n. obsolete A whit; a bit; a jot.
  3. n. obsolete A supernatural being.
  4. n. A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.
  5. adj. Obs. or Poetic Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel
  2. n. a human being; `wight' is an archaic term

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old Norse vígt, neuter of vígr ("skilled in fighting, of age"), cognate with Old English wīġ. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English wiht; see wekti- in Indo-European roots.Middle English, from Old Norse vīgt, neuter of vīgr, able to fight; see weik-3 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • morganscorpion Found with monotonous regularity in Spenser's "Faerie Queene" where it seems to just mean "person" - whether human or faerie. Feb 7, 2009

  • sionnach Two wongs don't make a wight. Feb 18, 2008

  • treeseed Also a ghost or spirit that haunts a barrow
    barrow wight Feb 18, 2008

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