Definition of "sprite"

(mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade.  quotations

An apparition; ghost  examples

(mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.

(computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.  examples

An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.  examples

The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).  examples

(entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).

A spayed female ferret.  examples

(obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”)