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spectre
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spectre has 2 senses
- spectre(n = noun.person) apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" is a kind of disembodied spirit, spirit
- spectre(n = noun.cognition) ghost, shade, specter, spook, wraith - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" is a kind of apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
has particulars: flying dutchman
CIDE DICTIONARY
spectre, n. [F. spectre, fr. L. spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look. See Spy, and cf. Spectrum.].
- Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. [1913 Webster]"The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend,
With bold fanatic specters to rejoice." [1913 Webster] - The tarsius. [1913 Webster]
spectre, n.
See Specter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spectre, n. (US specter)
1 a ghost.
2 a haunting presentiment or preoccupation (the spectre of war).
3 (in comb.) used in the names of some animals because of their thinness, transparency, etc. (spectre-bat; spectre-crab).
1 a ghost.
2 a haunting presentiment or preoccupation (the spectre of war).
3 (in comb.) used in the names of some animals because of their thinness, transparency, etc. (spectre-bat; spectre-crab).
Idiom
Spectre of the Brocken a huge shadowy image of the observer projected on mists about a mountain-top (observed on the Brocken in Germany).
Etymology
F spectre or L spectrum: see SPECTRUM
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