NOUN | cognition | specter, ghost, shade, spook, wraith, spectre | a mental representation of some haunting experience |
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person | specter, apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, spectre | a ghostly appearing figure |
Sounds | speh'kter | |
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Rhymes | abductor ... zoster: 649 rhymes with ter... |
Meaning | A mental representation of some haunting experience. | |
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Example | "it aroused specters from his past" | |
Synonyms | ghost, shade, spook, wraith, spectre | |
Broader | apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow | Something existing in perception only |
Spanish | aparición, espectro, fantasma, sombra, wraith | |
Catalan | espectre, fantasma |
Meaning | A ghostly appearing figure. | |
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Synonyms | apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, spectre | |
Narrower | Flying Dutchman | The captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day |
Broader | spirit, disembodied spirit | Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings |
Spanish | aparición, espectro, fantasma | |
Catalan | aparició, fantasma |
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