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sprite

/spɹaɪt/

sprite noun: a spirit; a soul; a shade. Also the alternative form of spright.

Noun

sprite (plural sprites)

  1. A spirit; a soul; a shade.
    • He who torments the chafer's sprite
      Weaves a bower in endless night.1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
  2. An apparition; a ghost.
  3. An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
  4. A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
  5. A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
  6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
  7. Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
  8. A spayed female ferret.

Verb

sprite (third-person singular simple present sprites, present participle spriting, simple past and past participle sprited)

  1. (informal) To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.
    • sprited the new NPCs

Proper noun capitalized: Sprite

Sprite (plural Sprites)

  1. A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink.

Also used as

sprite is also the alternative form of spright.

sprite meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sprite in Hindi

स्प्राइट

sprite in Tamil

ஸ்ப்ரைட், ஸ்பிரைட்

sprite in Marathi

स्प्राइट, स्प्राईट, स्प्राइट करण्यासाठी

sprite in Urdu

اسپرائیٹ, اسپرائٹ
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sprite in Bengali
স্প্রাইট, স্প্রাইট করতে, স্প্রাইট করার জন্য
sprite in Telugu
స్ప్రైట్, స్ప్రెయిట్, స్ప్రాయిట్
sprite in Malayalam
സ്പ്രൈറ്റ്, സ്പ്രെയിറ്റ്, സ്പ്രൈറ്റ് ചെയ്യാൻ
sprite in Kannada
ಸ್ಪ್ರೈಟ್, ಸ್ಪ್ರಾಯಿಟ್
sprite in Punjabi
ਸਪਰਾਈਟ, ਸਪ੍ਰਾਈਟ, ਸਪ੍ਰਾਇਟ
sprite in Gujarati
સ્પ્રાઇટ, સ્પ્રાઈટ, સ્પ્રાયટ
sprite in Odia
ସ୍ପ୍ରାଇଟ, ସ୍ପ୍ରାଇଟ୍, ସ୍ପ୍ରାଇଟ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
sprite in Nepali
स्प्राइट, स्प्राइट गर्न, स्प्राइट गर्नाका लागि

Examples of sprite in a sentence

  • Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
  • We preshifted the game sprites to avoid having to redraw them at different positions during gameplay.
  • We now have "nonbinary tree sprites" and kids changing their biology for social media likes.

All 12 example sentences with sprite

Synonyms of sprite

Forms of sprite

Noun
pluralsprites
alternative form (obsolete)spright
Verb
third-person singular presentsprites
present participlespriting
past participlesprited
pastsprited
Proper noun
pluralSprites

Plural of sprite: sprites

Origin of sprite

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit. (computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s. (meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.

In the early 1940s, Coca-Cola started running an advertising campaign featuring an elf-like figure called “Sprite Boy” (see sprite (“elf”)). The name originated from the previous Coca-Cola campaign, but it was a focus group that ultimately chose the name “Sprite”.

Words formed from sprite

Phrases with sprite

Words that rhyme with sprite

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Questions about sprite

What does sprite mean?
Sprite means a spirit; a soul; a shade.
What is sprite in Hindi?
Sprite in Hindi is स्प्राइट. See Sprite meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sprite?
Sprite can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sprite?
Sprite is pronounced /spɹaɪt/.
What is the plural of sprite?
The plural of sprite is sprites.

Words near sprite in the dictionary

  1. sprints classification
  2. sprints classifications
  3. sprit
  4. sprit-sail
  5. sprit-sails
  6. sprite
  7. sprite comic
  8. sprite halo
  9. sprite haloes
  10. sprite halos
  11. sprited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprite (page history and authors); Sprite (page history and authors); sprite (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sprite (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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