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Synonyms for phantom

Grammar : Noun
Spell : fan-tuhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæn təm

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Définition of phantom

Origin :
  • c.1300, fantum "illusion, unreality," from Old French fantosme (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fantauma, from Latin phantasma "an apparition" (see phantasm). The ph- was restored in English late 16c. (see ph). Meaning "specter, spirit, ghost" is attested from late 14c.; that of "something having the form, but not the substance, of a real thing" is from 1707. As an adjective from early 15c.
  • noun ghost; figment of the imagination
Example sentences :
  • A phantom of him moving silent about the house fill the part as well!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • He looked after his wife fixedly, without a word, as though she had been a phantom.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • The phantom that my mind pursued, was another and more real child.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • What phantom of the brain did he pursue; and why did he look down so constantly?
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • This was like his phantom, or, if one may say so, without disrespect--his mummy.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Surely this was only another in that succession of phantom pictures.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • Of this phantom he had never breathed a syllable to anybody.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
  • It was that he had seen a phantom in the forest of Saint Germains.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
  • On every hand, wherever his eye could rest, there rose a phantom of his lost and buried life.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

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