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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun wraith has 1 senses

   wraith(n = noun.cognition) ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
is a kind of apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

wraith, n. [Scot. wraith, warth; probably originally, a guardian angel, from Icel. vör&edh;r a warden, guardian, akin to E. ward. See Ward a guard.].

1.  An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. [1913 Webster]
"She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith." [1913 Webster]
"O, hollow wraith of dying fame." [1913 Webster]

2.  Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith. M. G. Lewis. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

wraith, n.
1 a ghost or apparition.
2 the spectral appearance of a living person supposed to portend that person's death.

Derivative:
wraithlike adj.

Etymology:
16th-c. Sc.: orig. unkn.


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Demon

N  demon, daemon, demonry, demonology, evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil, bad spirit, unclean spirit, cacodemon, incubus, Eblis, shaitan, succubus, succuba, Frankenstein's monster, Titan, Shedim, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Moloch, Belial, Ahriman, fury, harpy, Friar Rush, vampire, ghoul, afreet, barghest, Loki, ogre, ogress, gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia, bogie, bogeyman, bogle, nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp, ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision, hobglobin, goblin, orc, wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures, evil eye, merman, mermaid, merfolk, siren, satyr, faun, manito, manitou, manitu, possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession, insanity, Maxwell's demon, demoniac, demonic, demonical, impish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiend-like, supernatural, weird, uncanny, unearthly, spectral, ghostly, ghost-like, elfin, elvin, elfish, elflike, haunted, pokerish, possessed, possessed by a devil, possessed by a demon, demonically.