geists

Noun

geist (plural geists)

1. A ghost, an apparition.
   • The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.1877, The spiritual magazine
2. Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).
   • The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur.1974, V. Jagannatha Panicker, Crucifixion of the Unborn: Underpopulated India, Digitized edition, Sivaji Publications, published 2008, page 54

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