apparition
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- noun
- /ˌæpəˈrɪʃən/
- Literature
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aparición
- During the séance, they thought they saw an apparition that resembled a child, standing quietly in the corner.
- Guadalupe apparitions
- Marian apparitions
- miraculous apparition
Well, there's some instances where we see apparitions that I believe are ghostly apparitions that have been quite real, but I believe they're satanic.
- Well, there's some instances where we see apparitions that I believe are ghostly apparitions that have been quite real, but I believe they're satanic.
- Like honey, I seen a damn apparition down there that damn, this neighborhood's going shit.
- The texts are apparitions haunted by themselves, ghosting the writer wherever she now is.
Examples
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Both the old man and the child stared ahead as if awaiting an apparition.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Had his friend become this... this nightmare apparition?" I am First Man...
Fiction book (1992) -
An apparition of my dead wife?
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No, not her face... but an apparition, passing at a distance of years away...
Fiction book (1994) -
I think I see, in the courtyard, some dark apparition watching me.
Fiction book (1999) -
The girl was a strange apparition on the road near the rear bumper of my car.
Fiction book (1994) -
All she knew was that the apparition outside looked like something straight out of the Brothers Grimm.
Fiction book (1996) -
Reith and Zarfo saw the pale oval of his face; then, like an apparition, he was gone.
Fiction book (1993) -
Three shepherd children reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary, followed by miracles, prophesies.
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To his infinite relief, no ghostly apparition manifested itself before his shrinking gaze.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A spirit or ghost that people feel is nearby
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A ghost or spirit that people think they see
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A ghost that people say appears and frightens them at night
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An event when a spirit appears in visible form
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A thing that seems real but is only in the mind, like a ghost
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A ghost-like figure that seems real but is not
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A frightening ghost that appears at night
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A spirit without a body that appears to people or stays near places
A ghost that appears to people
Antonyms
How Scary
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Apparition comes from the Latin apparere, meaning 'to appear', and it shares the same root as the English word appear. Because ghosts often seem to 'appear' out of nowhere, apparition also came to mean a ghost that shows up suddenly.