Phantom Definition
făntəm
phantoms
noun
phantoms
Something that seems to appear to the sight but has no physical existence; apparition; vision; specter.
Webster's New World
Something feared or dreaded.
Webster's New World
Something that exists only in the mind; illusion.
Webster's New World
A model of a human body or body part.
American Heritage Medicine
A person or thing that is something in appearance but not in fact.
A phantom of a leader.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom.
Tales of a phantom ship haunting the bay.
American Heritage
Of, like, or constituting a phantom; not really existing; illusory.
Webster's New World
Fictitious or nonexistent, often when intended to deceive.
Phantom employees on the payroll; deposits in a phantom bank account.
American Heritage
Believed to be real even though illusory.
A phantom pregnancy.
American Heritage Medicine
Being a phantom limb.
A phantom arm.
American Heritage Medicine
pronoun
The comic The Phantom, and the character in it by the same name.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Phantom
Noun
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phantomsOrigin of Phantom
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Middle English fantom from Old French fantosme probably from Vulgar Latin phantauma from Greek dialectal phantagma from Greek phantasma phantasm
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle English fantom, fantum, from Old French fantosme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phantasma).
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