Usually means: Supernatural being, often malevolent ghost.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. wight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wight: Merriam-Webster
  3. Wight, wight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wight, wight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Wight, wight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wight, wight: Wordnik
  8. Wight, wight: Wiktionary
  9. wight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wight: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wight: Dictionary.com
  12. wight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Wight (Dungeons & Dragons), Wight (disambiguation), Wight (surname), Wight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Wight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. wight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Wight: Rhymezone
  17. Wight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. wight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. wight: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wight: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. wight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Wight: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Wight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wight: A Word A Day
  2. wight: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wight: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Wight)

noun:  (archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
noun:  (Old Norse) A supernatural being, often used in compounds such as the land-vættr which guard the land, especially the four guardians of Iceland.
noun:  (poetic) A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
noun:  (fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
adjective:  (archaic, except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong.
adjective:  (UK dialectal, obsolete) Strong; stout; active.
noun:  The Isle of Wight.
noun:  A sea area comprising part of the English Channel, from the southern English coast down to Normandy.
noun:  A surname.

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