Specter has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
"it aroused specters from his past"
2
a ghostly appearing figure
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
3
A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
"The old mansion's creaking floorboards seemed to summon the specter of a forgotten tragedy every time the wind howled outside."
Example Sentences
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
noun
"it aroused specters from his past"
noun
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
noun
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)