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 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mental representation of some haunting experience
- noun a ghostly appearing figure
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Examples
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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
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'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
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A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic.
Red shift Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic.
Archive 2009-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"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
john commented on the word spectre
“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