geist/ɡaɪst/EtymologyFrom German Geist (“spirit, ghost, mind”). Doublet of ghost.geist means A surname from German. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.nameA surname from German.nounA ghost, an apparition.“The geists eat and drink, but only as geists — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.”Spirit (of a group, age, era, etc).“The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur.”