SPECTRE
\spˈɛktə], \spˈɛktə], \s_p_ˈɛ_k_t_ə]\
Definitions of SPECTRE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
By Princeton University
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a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
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By James Champlin Fernald
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An apparition; phantom; ghost.
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Spectral.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Latin] An apparition; a ghost; -something made preternaturally visible ;-a quadrumanous mammal of the genus Lemur, so called from its nocturnal habits, long and lanky frame, and its stealthy gliding motion ; - a genus of orthopterous insects having a linear attenuated body.
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