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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GOB'LIN, n.
1. An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom.
To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied.
2. A fairy; an elf.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings [syn: goblin, hob, hobgoblin]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English gobelin, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin gobelinus, ultimately from Greek kobalos rogue Date: 14th century an ugly or grotesque sprite that is usually mischievous and sometimes evil and malicious

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a mischievous ugly dwarflike creature of folklore. Etymology: ME prob. f. AF gobelin, med.L gobelinus, prob. f. name dimin. of Gobel, rel. to G Kobold: see COBALT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Goblin Gob"lin, n. [OE. gobelin, F. gobelin, LL. gobelinus, fr. Gr. ? knave, a mischievous goblin; or cf. G. kobold, E. kobold, cobalt, Armor. gobilin an ignis fatuus, goblin.] An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(goblins) In fairy stories, a goblin is a small, ugly creature which usually enjoys causing trouble. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Hobgoblin, spectre, sprite, frightful apparition, evil spirit.

Moby Thesaurus

Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Oberon, Titania, banshee, brownie, cluricaune, demon, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fay, gnome, gremlin, hob, hobgoblin, imp, kobold, leprechaun, nix, nixie, ouphe, peri, pixie, pooka, puca, pwca, sprite, sylph, sylphid