A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism.
Source: tatoeba (7799796)
Specter
//ˈspɛktɚ//
Synonyms for "specter" (86 found)
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Closest matches (18)
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Related words (43)
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2 entriesderived
10 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
71 translations across 33 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- abe noun (ghostly apparition)
- hije noun (ghostly apparition)
- stihi noun (ghostly apparition)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- φάντασμα noun (ghostly apparition)
- φάσμα noun (ghostly apparition)
Arabic
2 entries- شَبَح noun (ghostly apparition)
- شَبْح noun (ghostly apparition)
Belarusian
1 entries- пры́від noun (ghostly apparition)
Bulgarian
3 entries- привиде́ние noun (ghostly apparition)
- призрак noun (ghostly apparition)
- фантом noun (mental image)
Chichewa
1 entries- mzukwa noun (ghostly apparition)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 幽靈 /幽灵 noun (ghostly apparition)
- 鬼魂 noun (ghostly apparition)
Czech
4 entries- hrozba noun (mental image)
- přízrak noun (ghostly apparition)
- přízrak noun (mental image)
- strašidlo noun (ghostly apparition)
Egyptian
1 entries- Ax-Z1:H_SPACE noun (ghostly apparition)
Esperanto
3 entries- apero noun (ghostly apparition)
- fantomo noun (ghostly apparition)
- spektro noun (mental image)
Finnish
1 entries- kummitus noun (ghostly apparition)
French
1 entries- spectre noun (ghostly apparition)
German
4 entries- Gespenst noun (ghostly apparition)
- Schreckgespenst noun (mental image)
- Spuk noun (ghostly apparition)
- Spuk noun (mental image)
Greek
2 entries- σκιά noun (mental image)
- φάντασμα noun (ghostly apparition)
Hindi
1 entries- भूत noun (ghostly apparition)
Irish
1 entries- arracht noun (ghostly apparition)
Italian
2 entries- fantasma noun (ghostly apparition)
- spettro noun (ghostly apparition)
Japanese
2 entries- 亡霊 noun (ghostly apparition)
- 幽霊 noun (ghostly apparition)
Korean
1 entries- 유령 noun (ghostly apparition)
Latin
2 entries- phasma noun (ghostly apparition)
- spectrum noun (ghostly apparition)
Old English
1 entries- scucca noun (ghostly apparition)
Persian
1 entries- شبح noun (ghostly apparition)
Polish
2 entries- widmo noun (ghostly apparition)
- zjawa noun (ghostly apparition)
Portuguese
2 entries- aparição noun (ghostly apparition)
- espectro noun (ghostly apparition)
Romanian
4 entries- fantasmă noun (ghostly apparition)
- fantomă noun (ghostly apparition)
- fantomă noun (mental image)
- spectru noun (ghostly apparition)
Russian
4 entries- при́зрак noun (ghostly apparition)
- привиде́ние noun (ghostly apparition)
- фанто́м noun (ghostly apparition)
- фанто́м noun (mental image)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- sgàile noun (ghostly apparition)
- taibhse noun (ghostly apparition)
- tannasg noun (ghostly apparition)
Spanish
4 entries- espectro noun (ghostly apparition)
- imagen noun (mental image)
- jugarreta noun (ghostly apparition)
- pora noun (ghostly apparition)
Sumerian
3 entries- 𒄇 noun (ghostly apparition)
- 𒆤 noun (ghostly apparition)
- 𒋝𒋝 noun (ghostly apparition)
Swedish
3 entries- spöke noun (ghostly apparition)
- spöke noun (mental image)
- vålnad noun (ghostly apparition)
Ukrainian
1 entries- при́вид noun (ghostly apparition)
Urdu
1 entries- بهوت noun (ghostly apparition)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bóng ma noun (ghostly apparition)
- ma noun (ghostly apparition)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Mettemich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.
Source: tatoeba (7799798)
It is high time that communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
Source: tatoeba (7799805)
A specter is haunting Tatoeba— the specter of Tom.
Source: tatoeba (8812971)
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