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banshee

noun

ban·​shee ˈban-(ˌ)shē How to pronounce banshee (audio) ban-ˈshē How to pronounce banshee (audio)
: a female spirit in Gaelic folklore whose appearance or wailing warns a family that one of them will soon die
We heard someone screaming like a banshee.

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In Irish folklore, a bean sídhe (literally "woman of fairyland") was not a welcome guest. When she was seen combing her hair or heard wailing beneath a window, it was considered a sign that a family member was about to die. English speakers modified the mournful fairy's Irish name into the modern word banshee—a term we now most often use to evoke her woeful or terrible or earsplitting cry, as in "to scream like a banshee," or attributively, as in "a banshee wail."

Example Sentences

I heard someone wailing like a banshee.
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Word History

Etymology

Irish bean sídhe & Scottish Gaelic bean sìth, literally, woman of fairyland

First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of banshee was in 1771

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