as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
the story that if you follow a rainbow to its end, you'll find a leprechaun's pot of gold
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Recent Examples of leprechaun
On March 17, there will be a find-the-leprechaun contest for a gift card.
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Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Place a leprechaun hat on your pet's head and let your child know a leprechaun did it.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
Leave a note from the leprechaun signed with an Irish name.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
While leprechauns are usually small, make sure the footprints are big enough to be noticed.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
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Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Place a leprechaun hat on your pet's head and let your child know a leprechaun did it.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
Leave a note from the leprechaun signed with an Irish name.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
While leprechauns are usually small, make sure the footprints are big enough to be noticed.
—Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for leprechaun
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leprechaun
Noun
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However, finding young actors who were not afraid of the dark elf proved challenging during filming.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
People.com,
22 June 2025
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Using Sindarin, the language Tolkien crafted for the elves, Woolley built the rest of the name.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Brown and Kountz play Luna and Marvin, a couple who moves to Evergreen Lane with a passion for goblins and ghouls that inspires the whole neighborhood to go all in.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 June 2025
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Stripped first of his access to the goblin court, and now of his ability to speak with the dead, Celehar nonetheless still has commitments to the living.—
Natalie Zutter
January 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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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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“Leprechaun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leprechaun. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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