Definition of phantom in English:

phantom

noun ˈfantəmˈfæn(t)əm

1A ghost.
a phantom who haunts lonely roads
as modifier a phantom ship
Example sentencesExamples
- Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night.
- It is like a medieval, deserted castle that is full of phantoms and ghosts, and this makes you feel sick - you just want to run away, far from these cold, scary walls.
- She was haunting him, like a phantom in the night.
- Then, in a room filled with Halloween images of ghosts and phantoms, Duncan Smith got his chance to show his hidden talents - at the pool table.
- The State Tourist Department can arrange for a sightseeing trip for the female ghost of the old city and phantoms in Banjara Hills.
- Cigarette smoked choked the fresh, crisp night air like a phantom descending upon its haunt.
- Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub.
- But the phantoms of the evil ones haunted this particular hallway on Floor 13, making it an abandoned site.
- The experienced earth lends something of its atmosphere to every world that we can conceive, and hence haunts these other worlds like a phantom.
- The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon.
- Lanser Hall was one of the oldest dorms and laboratories on campus and hadn't been used due to the rumor of a phantom that haunted them.
- His face is distorted, making him look like a phantom haunting a ruin.
- Four fearless women are preparing to spend the night in the company of ghosts, ghouls and phantoms to raise money for the Abbeyfield care home where they work.
- This time out, the author collects some chilling accounts of coal mine ghosts, phantoms.
- Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones.
- Science is first and foremost a recognition that the objective world of nature is comprehensible on its own terms, without recourse to phantoms, spirits or inexplicable forces.
- Creoles speak of a phantom pirate ship seen at night, lit by flickering lanterns.
- A few years later, two more British sailors saw the phantom ship as they sailed around the cape.
- The young man in question slowly emerged form the pitch-black shadows of the closet as eerily as a phantom.
- He was crying out to ghost pedestrians, phantoms incapable of reacting in any other way but unbridled fear.
Synonyms
ghost, apparition, spirit, spectre, wraith, shadow
Scottish &amp Irish bodach
West Indian duppy
informal spook
literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight
rare eidolon, manes
1. 1.1 A figment of the imagination.
  he tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was total voyeurism, and several people who were on the show had trouble afterwards adjusting to the fact that their fame was illusory - a deceiving phantom.
  The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result.
  As we said before, the brand is a phantom, a cypher, figments of the popular imagination that have somehow become the essential conduit for cultural information about objects.
  But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing.
  While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
  I said in my previous letter that I felt that somewhere, in the deep recesses of his mind, there may be the merest phantom of a thought that I might be right.
  At long last, when each felt assured that the other was real, and not some phantom of imagination, their lips parted.
  Synonyms
  figment of the imagination, delusion, hallucination, illusion, chimera, vision, fantasy, mirage
  rare phantasm
2. 1.2as modifier Not real; illusory.
  a phantom conspiracy
  the women suffered from phantom pain that no physician could ever find
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sometimes this can lead to the unclenching of a previously clenched, painful phantom, suggesting a promising new therapeutic approach for phantom pain.
  Some experts describe it as a phantom sensation, like ‘pain’ in an amputated limb.
  In addition, 71% of these patients also experienced phantom pain postamputation.
  And some of phantom projects attached to the supposed main one are getting more money than it is…
  Then, the first thing that I do think about is how much my foot and the phantom pain is throbbing.
  Still considered somewhat of a phantom disease in some circles, fibromyalgia is very real for the people with the condition, which causes fatigue as well as musculoskeletal aches and stiffness.
  Immediately upon waking from surgery he recalled experiencing phantom pain.
  One year after surgery, the intervention group demonstrated dramatic reductions in phantom limb pain, stump pain and phantom sensation when compared with the control group.
  The phantom tumor caused her excruciating pain until her therapy showed her that she didn't have to punish herself for being wronged.
  There is a central nervous system pathway malfunction found in fibromyalgia, phantom pain, or psychiatric problems.
  Computer-generated graphics for the ghostly, phantom towers - the most radical suggestion to date - will be considered by council officials tomorrow.
  Acknowledging a patient's perception of a phantom shock as a real experience promotes continuing communication and fosters a trusting relationship.
  Yet she had grown immune to the troubling memories and phantom pain the sight or thought of those scars usually caused; Cypress was too engrossed in her painting.
  I not only had to deal with the pain of the stumps on my feet, but also the phantom pain that was terrible sometimes.
  The phantom pain is still there, haunting me with every step I take.
  For if there can be phantom pains in the hand, then a pain cannot be ontologically dependent on one's actual hand.
  It vivifies poetry, which might otherwise be reduced to a mere ‘language of ideas’ - ‘a phantom language, lacking in the substance of worldly things’.
  Treatments for phantom pain may involve medications or other therapies.
  She could feel the phantom pains from long gone bruises and cuts she had once received, but knew the scars in her soul would never heal.
  My stomach growls and hunger pangs, almost worse than the pains in my arms, legs, and face, lacerate through my body, disrupting the numbness in my growth strips and sending phantom burnings through my non-existent wings.
  Synonyms
  intangible, impalpable, indefinable, indescribable, vague, obscure, unclear, indistinct
3. 1.3as modifier Denoting a financial arrangement or transaction which has been invented for fraudulent purposes.
  he diverted an estimated £1,500,000 into ‘phantom’ bank accounts
  Example sentencesExamples
  This problem of built-in gains is related to another phenomenon: phantom year-end income.
  He also swore a financial statement, which indicated that he had phantom stock units and stock options.
  The only difference is that when you deal in phantom money, you also earn phantom profits, but imagine the new horizons this experience must have opened up for many a team member.
  A common practice in retailing mined diamond jewelry is to use phantom prices and then show impressive discounts in an effort to lure buyers.
  But there's an easier way to avoid phantom interest that will also provide you with some financial security.
  Like stock options, phantom stock must be expensed throughout its vesting period.

Origin

Middle English (also in the sense 'illusion, delusion'): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma (see phantasm).

fantastic from Late Middle English:
A word originally meaning ‘existing only in the imagination, unreal’ that comes from Greek phantastikos ‘vision’. Fantasy (Late Middle English) is of similar origin, as is fancy (Late Middle English), a contracted version of fantasy. The modern use of fantastic to mean ‘wonderful, excellent’ dates from the 1930s. The playful phrase trip the light fantastic, meaning ‘to dance’, goes back to John Milton's 1645 poem L'Allegro: ‘Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe.’ Pant (Middle English) ‘to breath spasmodically’ goes back to the root verb of fantastic, phainon ‘to show’, via Old French pantaisier ‘be agitated, gasp’; as do phantom (Middle English) from phantasma ‘mere appearance’ and phenomenon (late 16th century) which meant ‘things appearing to view’ in the original Greek.

Rhymes

bantam

Definition of phantom in US English:

phantom

nounˈfæn(t)əmˈfan(t)əm

1A ghost.
a phantom who haunts lonely roads
as modifier a phantom ship
figurative the centrist and conservative parties were mere phantoms in 1943
Example sentencesExamples
- His face is distorted, making him look like a phantom haunting a ruin.
- But the phantoms of the evil ones haunted this particular hallway on Floor 13, making it an abandoned site.
- Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub.
- A few years later, two more British sailors saw the phantom ship as they sailed around the cape.
- The young man in question slowly emerged form the pitch-black shadows of the closet as eerily as a phantom.
- Then, in a room filled with Halloween images of ghosts and phantoms, Duncan Smith got his chance to show his hidden talents - at the pool table.
- Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones.
- Cigarette smoked choked the fresh, crisp night air like a phantom descending upon its haunt.
- Creoles speak of a phantom pirate ship seen at night, lit by flickering lanterns.
- Science is first and foremost a recognition that the objective world of nature is comprehensible on its own terms, without recourse to phantoms, spirits or inexplicable forces.
- Lanser Hall was one of the oldest dorms and laboratories on campus and hadn't been used due to the rumor of a phantom that haunted them.
- The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon.
- She was haunting him, like a phantom in the night.
- The State Tourist Department can arrange for a sightseeing trip for the female ghost of the old city and phantoms in Banjara Hills.
- He was crying out to ghost pedestrians, phantoms incapable of reacting in any other way but unbridled fear.
- This time out, the author collects some chilling accounts of coal mine ghosts, phantoms.
- The experienced earth lends something of its atmosphere to every world that we can conceive, and hence haunts these other worlds like a phantom.
- It is like a medieval, deserted castle that is full of phantoms and ghosts, and this makes you feel sick - you just want to run away, far from these cold, scary walls.
- Four fearless women are preparing to spend the night in the company of ghosts, ghouls and phantoms to raise money for the Abbeyfield care home where they work.
- Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night.
Synonyms
ghost, apparition, spirit, spectre, wraith, shadow
1. 1.1 A figment of the imagination.
  he tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality
  as modifier the women suffered from phantom pain that no physician could ever find
  Example sentencesExamples
  But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing.
  It was total voyeurism, and several people who were on the show had trouble afterwards adjusting to the fact that their fame was illusory - a deceiving phantom.
  I said in my previous letter that I felt that somewhere, in the deep recesses of his mind, there may be the merest phantom of a thought that I might be right.
  At long last, when each felt assured that the other was real, and not some phantom of imagination, their lips parted.
  The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result.
  As we said before, the brand is a phantom, a cypher, figments of the popular imagination that have somehow become the essential conduit for cultural information about objects.
  While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
  Synonyms
  figment of the imagination, delusion, hallucination, illusion, chimera, vision, fantasy, mirage
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a financial arrangement or transaction that has been invented for fraudulent purposes but that does not really exist.
  he diverted an estimated $1,500,000 into “phantom” bank accounts
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like stock options, phantom stock must be expensed throughout its vesting period.
  The only difference is that when you deal in phantom money, you also earn phantom profits, but imagine the new horizons this experience must have opened up for many a team member.
  A common practice in retailing mined diamond jewelry is to use phantom prices and then show impressive discounts in an effort to lure buyers.
  This problem of built-in gains is related to another phenomenon: phantom year-end income.
  He also swore a financial statement, which indicated that he had phantom stock units and stock options.
  But there's an easier way to avoid phantom interest that will also provide you with some financial security.

Origin

Middle English (also in the sense ‘illusion, delusion’): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma (see phantasm).

单词	phantom
释义	Definition of phantom in English: phantom noun ˈfantəmˈfæn(t)əm 1A ghost. a phantom who haunts lonely roads as modifier a phantom ship Example sentencesExamples Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night. It is like a medieval, deserted castle that is full of phantoms and ghosts, and this makes you feel sick - you just want to run away, far from these cold, scary walls. She was haunting him, like a phantom in the night. Then, in a room filled with Halloween images of ghosts and phantoms, Duncan Smith got his chance to show his hidden talents - at the pool table. The State Tourist Department can arrange for a sightseeing trip for the female ghost of the old city and phantoms in Banjara Hills. Cigarette smoked choked the fresh, crisp night air like a phantom descending upon its haunt. Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub. But the phantoms of the evil ones haunted this particular hallway on Floor 13, making it an abandoned site. The experienced earth lends something of its atmosphere to every world that we can conceive, and hence haunts these other worlds like a phantom. The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon. Lanser Hall was one of the oldest dorms and laboratories on campus and hadn't been used due to the rumor of a phantom that haunted them. His face is distorted, making him look like a phantom haunting a ruin. Four fearless women are preparing to spend the night in the company of ghosts, ghouls and phantoms to raise money for the Abbeyfield care home where they work. This time out, the author collects some chilling accounts of coal mine ghosts, phantoms. Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones. Science is first and foremost a recognition that the objective world of nature is comprehensible on its own terms, without recourse to phantoms, spirits or inexplicable forces. Creoles speak of a phantom pirate ship seen at night, lit by flickering lanterns. A few years later, two more British sailors saw the phantom ship as they sailed around the cape. The young man in question slowly emerged form the pitch-black shadows of the closet as eerily as a phantom. He was crying out to ghost pedestrians, phantoms incapable of reacting in any other way but unbridled fear. Synonyms ghost, apparition, spirit, spectre, wraith, shadow Scottish &amp Irish bodach West Indian duppy informal spook literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight rare eidolon, manes 1.1 A figment of the imagination. he tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality Example sentencesExamples It was total voyeurism, and several people who were on the show had trouble afterwards adjusting to the fact that their fame was illusory - a deceiving phantom. The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result. As we said before, the brand is a phantom, a cypher, figments of the popular imagination that have somehow become the essential conduit for cultural information about objects. But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing. While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things. I said in my previous letter that I felt that somewhere, in the deep recesses of his mind, there may be the merest phantom of a thought that I might be right. At long last, when each felt assured that the other was real, and not some phantom of imagination, their lips parted. Synonyms figment of the imagination, delusion, hallucination, illusion, chimera, vision, fantasy, mirage rare phantasm 1.2as modifier Not real; illusory. a phantom conspiracy the women suffered from phantom pain that no physician could ever find Example sentencesExamples Sometimes this can lead to the unclenching of a previously clenched, painful phantom, suggesting a promising new therapeutic approach for phantom pain. Some experts describe it as a phantom sensation, like ‘pain’ in an amputated limb. In addition, 71% of these patients also experienced phantom pain postamputation. And some of phantom projects attached to the supposed main one are getting more money than it is… Then, the first thing that I do think about is how much my foot and the phantom pain is throbbing. Still considered somewhat of a phantom disease in some circles, fibromyalgia is very real for the people with the condition, which causes fatigue as well as musculoskeletal aches and stiffness. Immediately upon waking from surgery he recalled experiencing phantom pain. One year after surgery, the intervention group demonstrated dramatic reductions in phantom limb pain, stump pain and phantom sensation when compared with the control group. The phantom tumor caused her excruciating pain until her therapy showed her that she didn't have to punish herself for being wronged. There is a central nervous system pathway malfunction found in fibromyalgia, phantom pain, or psychiatric problems. Computer-generated graphics for the ghostly, phantom towers - the most radical suggestion to date - will be considered by council officials tomorrow. Acknowledging a patient's perception of a phantom shock as a real experience promotes continuing communication and fosters a trusting relationship. Yet she had grown immune to the troubling memories and phantom pain the sight or thought of those scars usually caused; Cypress was too engrossed in her painting. I not only had to deal with the pain of the stumps on my feet, but also the phantom pain that was terrible sometimes. The phantom pain is still there, haunting me with every step I take. For if there can be phantom pains in the hand, then a pain cannot be ontologically dependent on one's actual hand. It vivifies poetry, which might otherwise be reduced to a mere ‘language of ideas’ - ‘a phantom language, lacking in the substance of worldly things’. Treatments for phantom pain may involve medications or other therapies. She could feel the phantom pains from long gone bruises and cuts she had once received, but knew the scars in her soul would never heal. My stomach growls and hunger pangs, almost worse than the pains in my arms, legs, and face, lacerate through my body, disrupting the numbness in my growth strips and sending phantom burnings through my non-existent wings. Synonyms intangible, impalpable, indefinable, indescribable, vague, obscure, unclear, indistinct 1.3as modifier Denoting a financial arrangement or transaction which has been invented for fraudulent purposes. he diverted an estimated £1,500,000 into ‘phantom’ bank accounts Example sentencesExamples This problem of built-in gains is related to another phenomenon: phantom year-end income. He also swore a financial statement, which indicated that he had phantom stock units and stock options. The only difference is that when you deal in phantom money, you also earn phantom profits, but imagine the new horizons this experience must have opened up for many a team member. A common practice in retailing mined diamond jewelry is to use phantom prices and then show impressive discounts in an effort to lure buyers. But there's an easier way to avoid phantom interest that will also provide you with some financial security. Like stock options, phantom stock must be expensed throughout its vesting period. Origin Middle English (also in the sense 'illusion, delusion'): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma (see phantasm). fantastic from Late Middle English: A word originally meaning ‘existing only in the imagination, unreal’ that comes from Greek phantastikos ‘vision’. Fantasy (Late Middle English) is of similar origin, as is fancy (Late Middle English), a contracted version of fantasy. The modern use of fantastic to mean ‘wonderful, excellent’ dates from the 1930s. The playful phrase trip the light fantastic, meaning ‘to dance’, goes back to John Milton's 1645 poem L'Allegro: ‘Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe.’ Pant (Middle English) ‘to breath spasmodically’ goes back to the root verb of fantastic, phainon ‘to show’, via Old French pantaisier ‘be agitated, gasp’; as do phantom (Middle English) from phantasma ‘mere appearance’ and phenomenon (late 16th century) which meant ‘things appearing to view’ in the original Greek. Rhymes bantam Definition of phantom in US English: phantom nounˈfæn(t)əmˈfan(t)əm 1A ghost. a phantom who haunts lonely roads as modifier a phantom ship figurative the centrist and conservative parties were mere phantoms in 1943 Example sentencesExamples His face is distorted, making him look like a phantom haunting a ruin. But the phantoms of the evil ones haunted this particular hallway on Floor 13, making it an abandoned site. Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub. A few years later, two more British sailors saw the phantom ship as they sailed around the cape. The young man in question slowly emerged form the pitch-black shadows of the closet as eerily as a phantom. Then, in a room filled with Halloween images of ghosts and phantoms, Duncan Smith got his chance to show his hidden talents - at the pool table. Loosely based on an old Montreal myth about a phantom ship and a shadowy captain (according to the poorly translated English press release), the maze is made up of five connected game zones. Cigarette smoked choked the fresh, crisp night air like a phantom descending upon its haunt. Creoles speak of a phantom pirate ship seen at night, lit by flickering lanterns. Science is first and foremost a recognition that the objective world of nature is comprehensible on its own terms, without recourse to phantoms, spirits or inexplicable forces. Lanser Hall was one of the oldest dorms and laboratories on campus and hadn't been used due to the rumor of a phantom that haunted them. The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon. She was haunting him, like a phantom in the night. The State Tourist Department can arrange for a sightseeing trip for the female ghost of the old city and phantoms in Banjara Hills. He was crying out to ghost pedestrians, phantoms incapable of reacting in any other way but unbridled fear. This time out, the author collects some chilling accounts of coal mine ghosts, phantoms. The experienced earth lends something of its atmosphere to every world that we can conceive, and hence haunts these other worlds like a phantom. It is like a medieval, deserted castle that is full of phantoms and ghosts, and this makes you feel sick - you just want to run away, far from these cold, scary walls. Four fearless women are preparing to spend the night in the company of ghosts, ghouls and phantoms to raise money for the Abbeyfield care home where they work. Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night. Synonyms ghost, apparition, spirit, spectre, wraith, shadow 1.1 A figment of the imagination. he tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality as modifier the women suffered from phantom pain that no physician could ever find Example sentencesExamples But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing. It was total voyeurism, and several people who were on the show had trouble afterwards adjusting to the fact that their fame was illusory - a deceiving phantom. I said in my previous letter that I felt that somewhere, in the deep recesses of his mind, there may be the merest phantom of a thought that I might be right. At long last, when each felt assured that the other was real, and not some phantom of imagination, their lips parted. The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result. As we said before, the brand is a phantom, a cypher, figments of the popular imagination that have somehow become the essential conduit for cultural information about objects. While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things. Synonyms figment of the imagination, delusion, hallucination, illusion, chimera, vision, fantasy, mirage 1.2as modifier Denoting a financial arrangement or transaction that has been invented for fraudulent purposes but that does not really exist. he diverted an estimated $1,500,000 into “phantom” bank accounts Example sentencesExamples Like stock options, phantom stock must be expensed throughout its vesting period. The only difference is that when you deal in phantom money, you also earn phantom profits, but imagine the new horizons this experience must have opened up for many a team member. A common practice in retailing mined diamond jewelry is to use phantom prices and then show impressive discounts in an effort to lure buyers. This problem of built-in gains is related to another phenomenon: phantom year-end income. He also swore a financial statement, which indicated that he had phantom stock units and stock options. But there's an easier way to avoid phantom interest that will also provide you with some financial security. Origin Middle English (also in the sense ‘illusion, delusion’): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma (see phantasm).
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