phantom
noun/ˈfæntəm/
/ˈfæntəm/
- a ghost
- the phantom of his dead father
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- a thing that exists only in your imagination
- Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
Word OriginMiddle English (also in the sense ‘illusion, delusion’): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma, from phantazein ‘make visible’, from phainein ‘to show’.
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