spectre
[noun]
Synonyms: ghost, apparition, phantom, spirit, vision, wraith

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English Thesaurus: ghost, spirit, apparition, poltergeist, spook, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

spec‧tre British English, specter American English /ˈspektə $ -ər/ noun

1. the spectre of something something that people are afraid of because it may affect them badly:
The recession is again raising the spectre of unemployment.

2. [countable] literary a ghost

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

spectre
noun
ADJ. terrible | old | constant
VERB + SPECTRE evoke, raise Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
banish
SPECTRE + VERB hang over sb/sth, haunt sb/sth, hover over sb/sth, loom (over sb/sth)
PREP. ~ of The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

ghost the spirit of a dead person that some people think they can feel or see in a place:
His ghost is believed to haunt the house.
spirit a creature without a physical body, such as an angel or ghost:
evil spirits
the spirit world
apparition an image of a dead person that someone sees suddenly for a short time:
He claimed to have seen an apparition in the church.
poltergeist a ghost that people cannot see, which throws things or moves things around:
The house was haunted by a poltergeist that makes things move around all by themselves, sometimes quite big things like beds or wardrobes.
spook informal a ghost:
I’m not scared of spooks.
phantom literary a frightening and unclear image of a dead person:
They had seen phantoms gliding on the surface of the water.
spectre British English, specter American English literary a ghost, especially a frightening one:
She had looked like a spectre.
The following night, the spectre appeared again.

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