as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
dressed up the toddlers like goblins for Halloween
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Recent Examples of goblin
My dad’s Welsh and among my happiest memories of him are going through Brian Froud’s books about fairies, goblins and trolls.
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
That often means providing upgrades of low level monsters rather than just throwing more goblins at a problem.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
This unique mechanism is complemented by an oily liver which allows the goblin shark to float with near-neutral buoyancy.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
While recent albums from Dua Lipa, Grande and Lorde treated self-care and introspection as a kind of therapeutic salvation, Charli shifted hard into goblin mode, unfurling a litany of barely euphemistic drug references and proudly owning her messiest contradictions.
—Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
That often means providing upgrades of low level monsters rather than just throwing more goblins at a problem.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
This unique mechanism is complemented by an oily liver which allows the goblin shark to float with near-neutral buoyancy.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
While recent albums from Dua Lipa, Grande and Lorde treated self-care and introspection as a kind of therapeutic salvation, Charli shifted hard into goblin mode, unfurling a litany of barely euphemistic drug references and proudly owning her messiest contradictions.
—Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for goblin
Noun
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Meanwhile, as friendships across the kingdoms are strained by the ripple effects of the Dark Lord’s actions, the forces of good — elves, dwarves, men, Harfoots and a wizard named Gandalf (Weyman) — try to valiantly hold on to what matters to them most of all: each other.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
8 May 2025
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Photograph: Ying Tang/Getty Images While children are told stories about elves and reindeer, the truth is that hundreds of thousands of people work year-round to make sure Christmas feels magical.—
Zeyi Yang,
Wired News,
28 Apr. 2025
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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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For instance, people used to hang iron on their doors at night to keep faeries and demons out of their homes (talismans) and a knock on the door in the middle of the night was to be ignored, for surely some evil spirit was lurking outside.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Goblin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goblin. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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