• (British) IPA: /ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/
• (America) IPA: /ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/, /ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/

apparition (plural apparitions)

1. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

   • the sudden apparition of the Spaniards

   • {{RQ:Scott Waverley|passage=The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.
2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

   • […] which apparition, it seems, was you.

3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.

   The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     I think it is the weakness of mine eyes / That shapes this monstrous apparition.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     The heavenly bands […] a glorious apparition.

4. (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
5. (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.

• (act of becoming visible) appearance
• (a preternatural appearance) vision
• See also Thesaurus:ghost

• apparent
• appearance

• French: apparition
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• Russian: появле́ние
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• German: Erscheinung
• Italian: apparizione
• Portuguese: aparição
• Russian: привиде́ние
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• Italian: apparizione
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