1. (noun)apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre a ghostly appearingfigure "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
2. (noun)ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre a mental representation of some haunting experience "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
Definition of 'Spectre'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Spectre something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom