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Phantom
Definitions
- 1 Illusive. not-comparable
"[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”"
- 2 Fictitious or nonexistent. not-comparable
"a phantom limb"
- 1 something apparently sensed but having no physical reality wordnet
- 1 A ghost or apparition. countable, uncountable
- 2 Nickname of the F-4B jet fighter flown by U.S. marines in Vietnam.
- 3 something existing in perception only wordnet
- 4 Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion. countable, uncountable
- 5 A Rolls-Royce Phantom automobile.
"Paul pulled out the Phantom; niggas can't stand it but them hoes gonna come out."
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- 6 a ghostly appearing figure wordnet
- 7 A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing. countable, uncountable
- 8 A test object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue. countable, uncountable
- 9 Short for phantom power abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, uncountable
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
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