sídh

or shee

[shee]

noun, plural sídhe

[shee] /ʃi/. Irish Folklore.

a mound or hill in which fairies live.
a fairy.
sídhe, the race of fairies.

Origin of sídh

1785–95; < Irish; MIr síd, síth fairy mound; cf. banshee

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Examples from the Web for sidhe

Historical Examples of sidhe

To return, however, to the Sidhe people of the British Islands.
The Testimony of Tradition
David MacRitchie
The Sidhe have been, like the Angels, from before the making of the earth.
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series
Lady Gregory
These are the Sidhe, or people of the hill, the noblest among these mysterious folk.
Killarney
Mary Gorges
Sidhe is also Gaelic for wind, and certainly the Sidhe have much to do with the wind.
The Wind Among the Reeds
William Butler Yeats
I asked a countryman who was with me what hill that was, and he told me it was Cruachmaa of the Sidhe.
Ideas of Good and Evil
William Butler Yeats

British Dictionary definitions for sidhe

sidhe

pl n the sidhe

the inhabitants of fairyland; fairies

Word Origin for sidhe

C18: from Irish Gaelic aos sídhe people of the fairy mound; compare banshee

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Word Origin and History for sidhe

Sidhe

"the hills of the fairies," 1793; but in Yeats, "the fairie folk" (1899), elipsis of Irish (aos) sidhe "people of the faerie mound" (cf. second element in banshee).