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