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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Thor: The Dark World' (2013) Chris Hemsworth’s thunder god has a sequel that’s a blender of familiar fantasy tropes as Thor and love interest Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) have to deal with a dark elf with an Infinity Stone.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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In contrast, Tolkien imagined elves as elegant and refined, while humans had the capacity to be as barbaric as orcs, or as noble as elves.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Noun
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In fact, Bolg is the name of a goblin prince from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 June 2025
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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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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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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 30 Jul. 2025.
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