Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See specter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See specter.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of specter.

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  • noun a mental representation of some haunting experience
  • noun a ghostly appearing figure

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Examples

  • Still, as his career continues, Dynamo finds that a certain spectre of the past keeps popping up …

    Hero History: Dynamo | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • 'What a monstrous spectre is this man, this disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown up with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming.

    CHAPTER 21 2010

  • A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic.

    Red shift Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother.

    Angelica by Arthur Phillips: Book summary 2010

  • That cult classic television series dealt with a reporter who, in investigating a series of bizarre murders, would always come across some supernatural spectre from the past.

    Graham Masterton: Ghosts (and demons) of the past « Skulls in the Stars 2008

  • How I've missed Scoop after all these years I can't imagine and in this edition it is followed by The Loved One, another spectre from the era of Form Vc at Nonsuch Girls, who now I think on it had an odd and very quirky shared sense in humour and books.

    Everyman's Library 2007

  • How I've missed Scoop after all these years I can't imagine and in this edition it is followed by The Loved One, another spectre from the era of Form Vc at Nonsuch Girls, who now I think on it had an odd and very quirky shared sense in humour and books.

    Everyman's Library 2007

  • How I've missed Scoop after all these years I can't imagine and in this edition it is followed by The Loved One, another spectre from the era of Form Vc at Nonsuch Girls, who now I think on it had an odd and very quirky shared sense in humour and books.

    42 entries from July 2007 2007

  • "subterranean folk" who dwelt there, and whom he described as a spectre herd, with little, ugly, pale, or bluish human shapes, dotted in grey, and with black head-gear.

    Strife and Peace Fredrika Bremer 1833

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  • “The Phantom II was briefly given the designation F-110A and the name 'Spectre' by the USAF, but neither title was used.�? More on Wikipedia.

    December 30, 2008