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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Ignis fatuus \Ig"nis fat"u*us\; pl. Ignes fatui. [L. ignis
fire + fatuus foolish. So called in allusion to its tendency
to mislead travelers.]
1. A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over
marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the
decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by
some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also
Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and
Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: A misleading influence; a decoy.
[1913 Webster]
Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular
superstition. --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Ignis fatuus \Ig"nis fat"u*us\; pl. Ignes fatui. [L. ignis
fire + fatuus foolish. So called in allusion to its tendency
to mislead travelers.]
1. A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over
marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the
decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by
some inflammable gas; -- popularly called also
Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and
Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
ignis fatuus
n 1: a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
[syn: friar's lantern, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp]
2: an illusion that misleads [syn: will-o'-the-wisp]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
ignis fatuus
n.
1 (lb en folklore) A will o' the wisp.
2 (lb en figuratively) A delusion, a false hope.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
ignis fatuus
n.
1 (lb en folklore) A will o' the wisp.
2 (lb en figuratively) A delusion, a false hope.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
ignis fatuus
n.
1 (lb en folklore) A will o' the wisp.
2 (lb en figuratively) A delusion, a false hope.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
ignis fatuus
n.
1 (lb en folklore) A will o' the wisp.
2 (lb en figuratively) A delusion, a false hope.
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
ignis fatuus /ɪɡniz fˈatuːz/
divlji oganj
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
ignis fatuus /ɪɡniz fˈatuːz/
1. bazı geceler bataklıklarda görülen ve organik maddelerin çürümesinden hasıl olan gazlardan çıkan ateşli buhar
2. aldatıcı ümit veya her hangi bir şey.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "ignis fatuus":
airy nothing, autism, autoluminescence, backfire, balefire, beacon,
beacon fire, bioluminescence, blaze, bonfire, bubble, burning ghat,
campfire, cathode luminescence, cheerful fire, chemicoluminescence,
chemiluminescence, chimera, combustion, conflagration, corposant,
cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, crystalloluminescence,
daydream, death fire, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism,
double corposant, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld,
electroluminescence, false belief, fata morgana, fen fire, fire,
flame, flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fluorescence,
forest fire, fox fire, funeral pyre, hallucination, ignition,
illusion, ingle, lambent flame, luciferase, luciferin,
luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, mirage, misbelief,
misconception, noctiluscence, open fire, phantasm, phosphor,
phosphorescence, photoluminescence, pipe dream, prairie fire, pyre,
radioluminescence, raging fire, sea of flames, self-deceit,
self-deception, self-delusion, sheet of fire, signal beacon,
smudge fire, thermoluminescence, three-alarm fire,
tribofluorescence, triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, trick,
trip, two-alarm fire, vapor, watch fire, wildfire, wisp,
witch fire, wrong impression
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