noun
Meaning 1
An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
apparition
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/
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US: /ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/
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US: /ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/
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noun
Meaning 2
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
- The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
- He spoke to the apparition, and although its lips did not move, he somehow heard its reply.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vision
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appearance
noun
Meaning 7
something existing in perception only
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a ghostly apparition at midnight
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: illusion, semblance
Narrower terms: unidentified flying object, UFO, flying saucer, Flying Dutchman, ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre
noun
Meaning 8
the appearance of a ghostlike figure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: appearance
noun
Meaning 9
a ghostly appearing figure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spirit, disembodied spirit
Narrower terms: Flying Dutchman
History
Etymology
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: появяване (pojavjavane) — act of becoming visible
- Czech: objevení se — act of becoming visible
- Dutch: verschijning — act of becoming visible
- Esperanto: apero — act of becoming visible
- Finnish: ilmestyminen — act of becoming visible
- Finnish: ilmaantuminen — act of becoming visible
- French: apparition — act of becoming visible
- German: Erscheinen — act of becoming visible
- German: Erscheinung — act of becoming visible
- Italian: apparizione — act of becoming visible
- Polish: pojawienie się — act of becoming visible
- Portuguese: aparição — act of becoming visible
- Portuguese: aparecimento — act of becoming visible
- Romanian: apariție — act of becoming visible
- Romanian: ivire — act of becoming visible
- Russian: появле́ние (pojavlénije) — act of becoming visible
- Spanish: aparición — act of becoming visible
- Swedish: framtoning — act of becoming visible
- Swedish: uppträdande — act of becoming visible
- Swedish: apparition — act of becoming visible
- Ottoman Turkish: تجلی (tecelli) — act of becoming visible
- Ukrainian: поя́ва (pojáva) — act of becoming visible
- Belarusian: з'я́вішча (zʺjávišča) — thing appearing
- Belarusian: з'я́ва (zʺjáva) — thing appearing
- Bulgarian: явле́ние (javlénie) — thing appearing
- Dutch: verschijning — thing appearing
- Finnish: ilmestys — thing appearing
- German: Erscheinung — thing appearing
- Italian: apparizione — thing appearing
- Māori: pōmariko — thing appearing
- Māori: pōmārikoriko — thing appearing
- Māori: mariko — thing appearing
- Polish: zjawisko — thing appearing
- Portuguese: aparição — thing appearing
- Russian: явле́ние (javlénije) — thing appearing
- Ukrainian: об'явлення (obʺjavlennja) — thing appearing
- Ukrainian: з'явлення (zʺjavlennja) — thing appearing
- Bulgarian: привидение (prividenie) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Bulgarian: видение (videnie) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Chichewa: mzímu — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Chichewa: mzukwa — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Chinese Mandarin: 幽靈 /幽灵 (yōulíng) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Chinese Mandarin: 鬼魂 (guǐhún) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Czech: zjevení — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Czech: přízrak — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Dutch: verschijning — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Finnish: ilmestys — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- German: Erscheinung — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Ancient Greek: φάντασμα (phántasma) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Ancient Greek: φάσμα (phásma) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Hungarian: jelenés — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Italian: apparizione — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Latin: spectrum — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Macedonian: привидение (prividenie) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Māori: mariko — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Māori: pōmārikoriko — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Māori: pōmariko — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Polish: zjawa — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Portuguese: aparição — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Russian: привиде́ние (prividénije) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Russian: при́зрак (prízrak) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Scottish Gaelic: sgàile — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Scottish Gaelic: tannasg — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Scottish Gaelic: taibhse — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Serbo-Croatian: prikaza — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Slovak: prízrak — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Spanish: aparición — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Spanish: jugarreta — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Spanish: pora — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Swedish: andesyn — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Swedish: spökbild — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Tagalog: bibit — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Ottoman Turkish: خیالت (hayalet) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Ukrainian: при́вид (prývyd) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Ukrainian: примара (prymara) — unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
- Bulgarian: видимост (vidimost) — astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured
- Finnish: ilmestyminen — astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured
- German: Erscheinung — astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured
- Italian: apparizione — astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured
- Portuguese: aparição — astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured
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