adj
Meaning 1
Illusive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
phantom
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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/ˈfæntəm/
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rhymes with -æntəm
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adj
Meaning 2
Fictitious or nonexistent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a phantom limb
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A ghost or apparition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bridge, games
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noun
Meaning 6
A test object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: imaging
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
Short for phantom power
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
Nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by U.S. marines in Vietnam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
A Rolls-Royce Phantom automobile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 10
something apparently sensed but having no physical reality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- seemed to hear faint phantom bells
- the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
something existing in perception only
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a ghostly apparition at midnight
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: apparition, 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 12
a ghostly appearing figure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: apparition, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spirit, disembodied spirit
Narrower terms: Flying Dutchman
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
Across languages
Translations
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: илюзорен (iljuzoren) — unreal or fictitious
- Italian: immaginario — unreal or fictitious
- Italian: immaginaria — unreal or fictitious
- Italian: irreale — unreal or fictitious
- Māori: mariko — unreal or fictitious
- Russian: нереальный (nerealʹnyj) — unreal or fictitious
- Russian: иллюзорный (illjuzornyj) — unreal or fictitious
- Russian: фантомный (fantomnyj) — unreal or fictitious
- Arabic: سَرَاب (sarāb) — something having no physical reality
- Arabic: شَبَح (šabaḥ) — something having no physical reality
- Armenian: ուրվական (urvakan) — something having no physical reality
- Bulgarian: привиде́ние (prividénie) — something having no physical reality
- Bulgarian: илю́зия (iljúzija) — something having no physical reality
- Catalan: fantasma — something having no physical reality
- Czech: přízrak — something having no physical reality
- Danish: fantom — something having no physical reality
- Dutch: fantoom — something having no physical reality
- Esperanto: fantomo — something having no physical reality
- Finnish: aave — something having no physical reality
- French: fantôme — something having no physical reality
- Galician: pantasma — something having no physical reality
- German: Phantom — something having no physical reality
- Greek: Φαντομάς (Fantomás) — something having no physical reality
- Ancient Greek: φάντασμα (phántasma) — something having no physical reality
- Ancient Greek: φάσμα (phásma) — something having no physical reality
- Hindi: प्रेत (pret) — something having no physical reality
- Irish: amhailt — something having no physical reality
- Italian: fantasma — something having no physical reality
- Italian: spettro — something having no physical reality
- Japanese: 幻 (maboroshi) — something having no physical reality
- Māori: mariko — something having no physical reality
- Māori: pō-mariko — something having no physical reality
- Māori: pō-mārikoriko — something having no physical reality
- Middle English: fantome — something having no physical reality
- Norwegian Bokmål: fantom — something having no physical reality
- Persian: شبح (šabah) — something having no physical reality
- Persian: پرهیب (parhib) — something having no physical reality
- Plautdietsch: Spuak — something having no physical reality
- Polish: fantom — something having no physical reality
- Portuguese: fantasma — something having no physical reality
- Romanian: fantomă — something having no physical reality
- Romansh: fantom — something having no physical reality
- Russian: при́зрак (prízrak) — something having no physical reality
- Russian: тень (tenʹ) — something having no physical reality
- Russian: фанто́м (fantóm) — something having no physical reality
- Russian: привиде́ние (prividénije) — something having no physical reality
- Sardinian: pantùma — something having no physical reality
- Sardinian: pantàsima — something having no physical reality
- Sardinian: umbra — something having no physical reality
- Spanish: fantasma — something having no physical reality
- Sumerian: 𒈠𒊬 (/mamud/) — something having no physical reality
- Sumerian: 𒆤 (/lil/) — something having no physical reality
- Sumerian: 𒋝𒋝 (/sisig/) — something having no physical reality
- Sumerian: 𒄇 (/gidim/) — something having no physical reality
- Swedish: fantom — something having no physical reality
- Tagalog: bibit — something having no physical reality
- Ukrainian: прима́ра (prymára) — something having no physical reality
- Ukrainian: фанто́м (fantóm) — something having no physical reality
- Portuguese: fantoma — test object
Real reading context