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    SPIRITUAL BEING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human eventsplay

    Synonyms:

    spiritual being; supernatural being

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("spiritual being" is a kind of...):

    belief (any cognitive content held as true)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiritual being"):

    deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

    aeon; eon ((Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe)

    angel (spiritual being attendant upon God)

    faerie; faery; fairy; fay; sprite (a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers)

    disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)

    trickster (a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts)

    Instance hyponyms:

    God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

    Beelzebub; Devil; Lucifer; Old Nick; Prince of Darkness; Satan; the Tempter ((Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell)

    Holonyms ("spiritual being" is a member of...):

    occult; supernatural (supernatural forces and events and beings collectively)

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