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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
phan·tom 
[fan-tuhm] Pronunciation Key
[fan-tuhm] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
| 1. | an apparition or specter. |
| 2. | an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion. |
| 3. | a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.: the phantom of fear. |
| 4. | an illustration, part of which is given a transparent effect so as to permit representation of details otherwise hidden from view, as the inner workings of a mechanical device. |
| 5. | of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory: a phantom sea serpent. |
| 6. | Electricity. noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit. |
| 7. | named, included, or recorded but nonexistent; fictitious: Payroll checks were made out and cashed for phantom employees. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| phan·tom also fan·tom
(fān'təm) Pronunciation Key
n.
adj.
[Middle English fantom, from Old French fantosme, probably from Vulgar Latin *phantauma, from Greek dialectal *phantagma, from Greek phantasma; see phantasm.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
phantom
phantom
c.1300, fantum "illusion, unreality," from O.Fr. fantesme (12c.), from V.L. *fantauma, from L. phantasma (see phantasm). The ph- restored in Eng. c.1590. Meaning "specter, spirit, ghost" is attested from 1382; that of "something having the form, but not the substance, of a real thing" is from 1707.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| phantom | |
adjective | |
| 1. | something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb" |
noun | |
| 1. | a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition] |
| 2. | something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition] |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
phantom phan·tom or fan·tom (fān'təm)
n.
- Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality.
- An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
- A model, especially a transparent one, of the human body or of any of its parts.
- Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.
- Fictitious; nonexistent.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Phantom
Phan"tom\, a. Being, or of the nature of, a phantom. Phantom isles are floating in the skies. --B. Taylor.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Phantom
Phan"tom\, n. [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF. fant[^o]me, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to show. See Fancy, and cf. Pha["e]ton, Phantasm, Phase.] That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. --Pope. She was a phantom of delight. --Wordsworth. Phantom ship. See Flying Dutchman, under Flying. Phantom tumor (Med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but disappearing upon the administration of an an[ae]sthetic.
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