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[spek-ter]

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–noun Chiefly British.

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spec⋅ter

[spek-ter]

–noun

1.	a visible incorporeal spirit, esp. one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.

2.	some object or source of terror or dread: the specter of disease or famine.

Also, especially British, spectre.

Origin:
1595–1605; < L spectrum; see spectrum

Synonyms:
1. shade. See ghost.

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spec·tre (spěk'tər)

n. Chiefly British
Variant of specter.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

specter

1605, from Fr. spectre "an image, figure, ghost" (16c.), from L. spectrum "appearance, vision, apparition" (see spectrum). Spectral is attested from 1815 in the sense of "ghostly" (first recorded in Shelley); 1832 in sense of "of or pertaining to a spectrum."

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