| 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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