Hypertext Webster Gateway: "phantom"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phantom \Phan"tom\, a.
Being, or of the nature of, a phantom.
Phantom isles are floating in the skies. --B. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phantom \Phan"tom\, n. [OE. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, OF.
fant[^o]me, fr. L. phantasma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to show. See
{Fancy}, and cf. {Pha["e]ton}, {Phantasm}, {Phase}.]
That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a
specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal
image.
Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. --Pope.
She was a phantom of delight. --Wordsworth.
{Phantom ship}. See {Flying Dutchman}, under {Flying}.
{Phantom tumor} (Med.), a swelling, especially of the
abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus,
etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but
disappearing upon the administration of an an[ae]sthetic.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
phantom
adj : something apparently sensed but having no physical reality;
"seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's
illusion of a phantom limb"
n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the
apparition that confronted us" [syn: {apparition}, {specter},
{spectre}]
2: something existing in perception only: "a ghostly apparition
at midnight" [syn: {apparition}, {shadow}]
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