Spectre has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
a ghostly appearing figure
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
2
a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
"it aroused specters from his past"
3
Britain standard spelling of specter.
"The old house was always said to be haunted by a dark spectre that appeared only at midnight."
Example Sentences
"we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
noun
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
noun
"it aroused specters from his past"
noun
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)