Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ghostly apparition; a phantom.
- noun A haunting or disturbing image or prospect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ghostly apparition; a visible incorporeal human spirit; an appearance of the dead as when living.
- noun In zoology: One of many names of gressorial orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ; a walking-stick or stick-insect; a specter-insect.
- noun The specter-bat.
- noun The specter-lemur.
- noun A specter-shrimp.
- noun Synonyms Apparition, Phantom, etc. See
ghost .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
- noun The tarsius.
- noun A stick insect.
- noun (Zoöl.) any phyllostome bat.
- noun (Zoöl.) a belemnite.
- noun (Zoöl.) a skeleton shrimp. See under
Skeleton .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A ghostly
apparition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ghostly appearing figure
- noun a mental representation of some haunting experience
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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May 10th, 2010 4: 32 pm ET arlen specter is still alive?
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August 11th, 2009 4: 36 pm ET arlen specter is at the current moment having explained to him the increasing debt by an 18 year old at the lewisburg town hall.
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I can not believe specter is calling out his opponent for "not being a real democrat."
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His life and loved ones are all lost to him, but a specter from the past awakens him to an identity more than 3200 years ago.
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His life and loved ones are all lost to him, but a specter from the past awakens him to an identity more than 3200 years ago.
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I am pretty sure that the scene they showed with night owl and silk specter is actually a dream that Night Owl has. and yes i do know that they are going with the nukes instead of the giant squid monster.
Extended Watchmen Movie Trailer from Scream 2008 | /Film 2008
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"Of course, Conlin, in the midst of the dark revelry, meets the Bone Man; and the specter is very real; and the encounter leaves Conlin forever changed (ominous chuckle)."
John Joseph Adams » "The Bone Man" by Frederic S. Durbin 2007
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"Of course, Conlin, in the midst of the dark revelry, meets the Bone Man; and the specter is very real; and the encounter leaves Conlin forever changed (ominous chuckle)."
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A specter is stalking the Western world, and it looks a lot like Grandma.
kill grandma 2005
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Lest there be any doubt about the semantic authority of these b-t-t associations, it should be observed that the Marquis's first step upon being confronted with this report about the specter is to place a bed in the room in question and to spend the night there himself.
bilby commented on the word specter
See also spectre, which is apparently fey.
October 27, 2008