specter
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
specter (plural specters) (American spelling)
- A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
- A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
- (figuratively) A threatening mental image.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- See also Thesaurus:ghost
- spectral
- specter bat
- specter candle
- specter shrimp
- French: spectre
- German: Gespenst, Spuk
- Italian: spettro, fantasma
- Portuguese: espectro, aparição
- Russian: при́зрак
- Spanish: espectro
- German: Schreckgespenst , Spuk
- Spanish: imagen
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