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Definitions for phantom
ˈfæn təmphan·tom

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectrenoun

    a ghostly appearing figure

    "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"

  2. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadowadjective

    something existing in perception only

    "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

  3. phantomadjective

    something apparently sensed but having no physical reality

    "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"

Wiktionary

  1. phantomnoun

    Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition; something elusive or delusive.

  2. phantomnoun

    An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.

  3. phantomadjective

    illusive

  4. phantomadjective

    fictitious or nonexistent

  5. Phantomnoun

    Nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by Marines in Vietnam

  6. Phantomnoun

    The comic The Phantom, and the character in it by the same name

  7. Etymology: From fantom, from fantosme, from phantasma, from φάντασμα.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Phantomnoun

    Etymology: phantome, French.

    If he cannot help believing, that such things he saw and heard, he may still have room to believe that, what this airy phantom said is not absolutely to be relied on. Francis Atterbury.

    A constant vapour o’er the palace flies;
    Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise;
    Dreadful as hermit’s dreams in haunted shades,
    Or bright, as visions of expiring maids. Alexander Pope.

    Restless and impatient to try every scheme and overture of present happiness, he hunts a phantom he can never overtake. John Rogers, Sermons.

    As Pallas will’d, along the sable skies,
    To calm the queen, the phantom sister flies. Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Phantomnoun

    that which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image

  2. Etymology: [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF. fantme, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. fa`ntasma, fr. fai`nein to show. See Fancy, and cf. Phaton, Phantasm, Phase.]

Freebase

  1. Phantom

    Phantom is the tenth book in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth. Phantom debuted in the #1 spot on The New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, among others.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Phantom

    fan′tom, n. a phantasm.—adj. illusive, spectral.—adj. Phantomat′ic, relating to a phantom. [O. Fr. fantosme—Gr. phantasma.]

Editors Contribution

  1. Phantom

    Phantom may refer to: An apparition, more specifically a Spirit Ghost An illusion, a distortion of the senses

    The Phantom of the Opera.


    Submitted by anonymous on June 5, 2018  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of phantom in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of phantom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of phantom in a Sentence

  1. Alexis karpouzos:

    Time is the architect of fate, fleeting omen, pure phantom in enchanting light of absence, and our life the play of love and death, only love will never die, because In love no longer ‘thou’ and ‘I’ exist, only the blossom of sacred unity.

  2. William Wordsworth:

    She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

  3. George Washington:

    Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

  4. Joey Ciaramitaro:

    The rarest would be like a stark white lobster and we've had like maybe one or two of those, we had one that was split directly down the middle of its shell. Stark, stark white. I nicknamed that one the 'Phantom of the Lobsta'.

  5. Edward Bulwer-Lytton:

    Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

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