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spectre

/ ˈspɛktə /

noun

  1. a ghost; phantom; apparition
  2. a mental image of something unpleasant or menacing

    the spectre of redundancy

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spectre1

C17: from Latin spectrum, from specere to look at
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Example Sentences

Craig is signed on for just one more Bond flick after Spectre.

A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of Open Sarcasm.

Nonetheless, it would have been better if the Supreme Court had not raised this spectre by halting the process.

A specter is haunting the world,” they chant, echoing the first sentence of the Communist Manifesto: “The spectre of capitalism.

Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.

And when he did leave the dismal scene of this last act of his miseries, it was like the spectre of the man who had entered it.

Besides, there was the ever unceasing grizzly spectre of poverty dangling before Jessie's eyes.

A thing purple and dripping with blood—ghastly—unthinkable—monstrous—a spectre of nightmare dreams!

As a public force he was no longer a human being at all—he was a deformity, a spectre conjured up to bring fright to the beholder.

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