"Sprite" meaning in English

See Sprite in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /spɹaɪt/ Forms: Sprites [plural]
enPR: sprīt Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: 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”. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Sprite (plural Sprites)
  1. A colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink. Wikipedia link: Sprite (soft drink) Categories (topical): Beverages Translations (colourless, caffeine-free, lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink): سْبْرَايْت (sbrāyt) [masculine] (Arabic), Սփրայթ (Spʻraytʻ) (Armenian), Спрайт (Sprajt) [masculine] (Belarusian), স্প্রাইট (spraiṭ) (Bengali), Спрайт (Sprajt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 雪碧 (xuěbì) (Chinese Mandarin), Sprite (Finnish), სპრაიტი (sṗraiṭi) (Georgian), Σπραιτ (Sprait) (Greek), סְפְּרַיִּיט (sprayt) [masculine] (Hebrew), स्प्राइट (sprāiṭ) [feminine, masculine] (Hindi), スプライト (Supuraito) (Japanese), 스프라이트 (Seupeuraiteu) (Korean), Спрајт (Sprajt) [masculine] (Macedonian), سپرایت (sprâyt) (Persian), Спрайт (Sprajt) [masculine] (Russian), สไปรต์ (Thai), བསིལ་ལྦུ (bsil lbu) (Tibetan), Спрайт (Sprajt) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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