apparition
(noun)
noun
1. a ghostly appearing figure
- we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
Similar word(s): fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre
Definition categories: person, spirit
2. the appearance of a ghostlike figure
- I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter
Definition categories: event, appearance
3. something existing in perception only
- a ghostly apparition at midnight
Similar word(s): fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
Definition categories: thought, illusion, semblance
4. an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly
- natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger
Definition categories: act, appearance
Sentences with apparition as a noun:
- The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. – William H. Prescott.The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. – Sir W. Scott.
- Which apparition, it seems, was you. – Tatler.
- The attic is haunted by a ghostly apparition of a deceased young girl.
- The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition. – John Milton.I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. – William Shakespeare