Phantom

Definition: Phantom

Phantom

Adjective

1. Something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb".

Noun

1. A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us".

2. Something existing in perception only: "a ghostly apparition at midnight".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "phantom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Etymology: Phantom \Phan"tom\, noun. [Old English fantome, fantosme, fantesme, Old French fant[^o]me, from Latin phantasma, Greek, show. See Fancy, and compare to Pha["e]ton, Phantasm, Phase.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Medicine

Post & Telecom

Transportation

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Phantom

Imagination

Illusion; (error); phantom; (fallacy of vision); Fata Morgana; (ignis fatuus); vapor; (cloud); stretch of the imagination; (exaggeration); mythogenesis.

Unsubstantiality

Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery.

Crosswords: Phantom

German (dummy, ghost, manikin, phantom).

Pain is a phantom of the mind (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

There really is a phantom. He was just in my shower (Phantom of the Paradise; writing credit: Brian De Palma)

Here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks (The X Files; writing credit: Chris Carter; Frank Spotnitz)

I arrest you, Sir Charles Phantom, the notorious pink Lytton (The Return of the Pink Panther; writing credit: Frank Waldman ; Blake Edwards)

But I ain't never seen no phantom Russian submarine (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson)

Phantom ships, lost at sea (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak)

Dre, creep to the mic like a phantom (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Don't lamp wit a freestyle phantom ain't tryin' to be handsome (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

The Phantom of Hollywood (1974)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Nanny and the Professor and the Phantom of the Circus (1973)

Funky Phantom (1971)

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Phantom Soldier: The Enemy's Answer to U.S. Firepower (reference)

• The Phantom Tollbooth (reference)

• Phantom Army of the Civil War and Other Southern Ghost Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Phantom (reference)

• Sta Phantom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Phantom Tollbooth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Phantom of the Opera (Highlights from the 1989 Original Canadian Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Belphegor: Le Phantom Du Louvre [IMPORT] (reference)

• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Phantom Planet Is Missing (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Phantom Crash (reference)

• Pine 3d Phantom Xp3800 Agp 128MB Sis 315 4x Vga with TV Out RCA/S (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Spelunking cave diver towed by Phantom ROV. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Deploying the PHANTOM S2 through ice in Antarctica. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

PHANTOM 300 guided by diver records a stalagmite in a cave in the Bahamas. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

PHANTOM S2 dives the face of a reef wall. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Bob Schuler recently visited the F-4D Phantom he personally worked on as a crew chief during the Vietnam War. The aircraft is slated for destruction at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (Courtesy photo).

Underway at sea, 31 May 1962, while preparing for her fifth deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. Note that the carrier has F4H "Phantom II" jet fighters in her air group. Credit: NAVY.

Underway on 20 June 1963, with F-3 "Demon", F-4B "Phantom II" and F-8 "Crusader" jet fighters on her flight deck. The two "Crusaders" parked furthest forward are from Fighter Squadron 24 (VF-24). Photographed by PH1 J.D. Osborne. Credit: NAVY.

Senator D.B. Hill chasing "Presidency" phantom while his Senate duties gather cobwebs. Credit: Library of Congress.

The phantom ship from legendary ballads by Thomas Moore, arranged for one or three voices by Henry R. Bishop / lith. of Endicott, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Phantom Ridge," Black Hills, Dak. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But yet it is to be observed, that though oaths of allegiance and fealty are taken to him, it is not to him as supreme legislator, but as supreme executor of the law, made by a joint power of him with others; allegiance being nothing but an obedience according to law, which when he violates, he has no right to obedience, nor can claim it otherwise than as the public person vested with the power of the law, and so is to be considered as the image, phantom, or representative of the common-wealth, acted by the will of the society, declared in its laws; and thus he has no will, no power, but that of the law. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Phantom shook his head and smiled

THE PHANTOM SLOWLY, GRAVELY, silently approached

The abbess, a phantom, sanctifies and terrifies them

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Health

Our understanding of phantom pain has improved tremendously in recent years. (references)

It is used for a limited number of conditions, including severe pain, central pain syndrome, cancer pain, phantom limb pain, and other neuropathic pains. (references)

Even after total bladder removal, some patients still experience variable IC symptoms in the form of phantom pain. Therefore, the decision to undergo a cystectomy should be undertaken only after testing all alternative methods and after seriously considering the potential outcome. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

Opposition representatives charged that the Government did nothing to clean the electoral rolls of phantom voters following the judge's ruling and before the by-election was held. (references)

Malaysia

In June a High Court judge in Sabah ruled that the 1999 election of BN candidate Yong Teck Lee to the state assembly seat in Likas was null and void due to the presence of phantom voters on the electoral rolls. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

Recruiters reportedly loiter outside high schools, shopping malls, and parks to lure adolescents into accepting phantom jobs abroad. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "phantom": phantom antenna ♦ phantom circuit ♦ Phantom Limb ♦ phantom limb pain ♦ phantom limb syndrome ♦ phantom orchid ♦ phantom pain ♦ phantom pregnancy ♦ phantom ship ♦ phantom target ♦ phantom tumor ♦ phantom view ♦ test phantom ♦ the phantom ship. Additional references.

Beginning with "phantom": phantom-bodied, phantom-like, phantom-ridden.

Ending with "phantom": Eagle-phantom, half-phantom, octuple-phantom, octuple-phantom.

Afrikaans

spook (ghost), gees (fairy, ghost, intellect, mind, soul, spirit). (various references)

Albanian

pjellë e fantazisë (imagination), vegim (daydreaming, dream, mirage, vision), iluzion (delusion, hallucination, illusion, trick, vapor, vapour, will-o'-the-wisp), i iluzionit, hije (apparition, background, cloud, color, colour, dark, ghost, loom, phantasm, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith), fantazmë (apparition, eidolon, ghost, haunt, phantasm, spectre, spirit, wraith), fanitje (wraith). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏وهم (bubble, delusion, fancy, idol, illusion, illusory, imagination, prestige, purport, vagary, vapor, vapour), ‏سراب (fata morgana, mirage), ‏طيف (ghost, idol, shade, shadow, spectrum, vision, wraith), ‏صورة لشىء تجريدي, ‏شبح (apparition, bogey, evil spirit, ghost, gremlin, idol, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фантомна верига, фантом (ghost, idol), въображаем (abstract, fancy, fictional, ideal, imaginary, mythical, mythological, notional, unreal, visional, visionary), оптическа измама (optical illusion), заблуда (deception, errancy, fallacy, misbelief, mistake, reverie, swiz), продукт на въображението (brainchild), привидение (boggard, eidolon, fetch, ghost, phantasm, shade, shape, spectre, vision, visitant), привиден (colorable, colourable, factitious, fictitious, formal, left handed, ostensible, ostentatious, outward, put on, seeming, superficial, token), призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spirit, spook, vision, wraith), илюзорен (delusive, delusory, illusional, illusive, illusory, insubstantial, unreal, visionary), илюзия (deception, delusion, dream, fantasy, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasm, phantasy, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Chinese 

幽灵 (specter, spectre, spook), 幻影 , 妖 (bewitching, devil, enchanting, goblin, monster, witch). (various references)

Czech

přelud (ghost, phantasm), přízrak (apparition, chimera, double, ghost, phantasm, spectre, spirit, vision, wraith), zjevení (apocalypse, apparition, eye opener, revelation, spectre, wraith), fantóm. (various references)

Danish

spøgelsesbillede (double image, ghost, ghost image, multiple image), model (model), fantomradiologi, ånd (ghost, spirit). (various references)

Dutch

geest (fairy, ghost, intellect, mind, soul, spirit), blinde (blind, ghost, sightless person). (various references)

Esperanto

fantomo (ghost). (various references)

Faeroese

spøkilsi (ghost), hamur (ghost), dreygur (ghost), andi (ghost, mind, spirit). (various references)

Farsi 

منظر (Appearance, Aspect, Face, Hue, Image, Leer, Phase, Spectrum, Visage, Wraith), خیالی (Abstract, Bizarre, Brainchild, Dreamy, Image, Imaginary, Poetic, Romantic, Unreal, Unrealistic, Visionary), روح (Esprit, Ghost, Numen, Psyche, Specter, Spirit, Spook, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith, Zinc, Zing), ظاهرفریبنده , شبح (Ghost, Spectrum, Spook, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith). (various references)

Finnish

aave (apparition, ghost, spectre, spook). (various references)

French

fantôme (phantasm, test phantom). (various references)

Frisian

spoek (ghost). (various references)

German

Phantom (dummy, ghost, manikin), Gespenst (ghost, specter, spectre, spectres, spook, wraith). (various references)

Greek 

φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, ghost, gnome, hobgoblin, phantasm, pixy, specter, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Hebrew 

דמיוני (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fancied, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Hungarian

rémkép (bogey, boggle, bogy, chimaera, chimera, hobgoblin, nightmare, phantasm), kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, poltergeist, shadow, specter, spectre, spook, vampire, wraith), fantom, képzeletbeli (chimerical, fancy, ideal, imaginary, insubstantial, notional, visionary), káprázat (dazzle, delusion, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm), jelenés (apparition, appearance, phantasm, shape), fantom-, agyrém (chimaera, chimera, fantasy, phantasm), ál- (bogus, dummy, dutch, impersonator, mock, pseudo, sham), ábrándkép (daydream, dream, mirage). (various references)

Italian

fantasma (apparition, bogeyman, ghost, ghoul, shadow, specter, spectre, wraith). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

幽霊 (apparition, ghost, specter), 幻像 (illusion, vision), 幻 (dream, illusion, vision). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ファントム , しんしゅつきぼつ (appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments, elusive), まぼろし (dream, illusion, vision), ばけもの (apparition, ghost, goblin, monster, spectre), ゆうれい (apparition, ghost, specter), ようかい (apparition, demon, fusing, ghost, goblin, melting, monster, solution, spectre), げんぞう (developing, illusion, original statue, vision), げんえい (illusion, vision). (various references)

Korean 

환영 (illusion, Welcome, Welcoming). (various references)

Malay

hantu (ghost). (various references)

Manx

scaanjoonagh (ghostlike, ghostly), scaanjoon (bogle, ghost). (various references)

Papiamen

zumbi (ghost), spiritu (ghost, spirit), spirito (ghost), fantasma (ghost), beako (ghost). (various references)

Pig Latin

antomphay.(various references)

Portuguese

fantasma (apparition, bogle, bugaboo, bugbear, eidolon, ghost, golliwog, haunt, hob, leprechaun, phantasm, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), espectro (bogle, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), aparição (ghost, phantasm, spectre, spirit, spook). (various references)

Romanian

iluzie (delusion, fume, mare's nest, self-deceit, shade, vapor, vapour), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantasm, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith, zombie), fantasmã (phantasm), apariţie (advent, apparition, appearance, arrival, birth, emergence, entry, ghost, issue, occurrence, peep, shape, sight, spectre, vision), amintire (keepsake, memento, memorial, memory, mention, mind, recollection, relic, remembrance, souvenir, token). (various references)

Russian 

фантом искусственный, фантом (eidolon, phantasm, phantasm 2), призрачный (ghostly, illusive, phantasmal, shadowy, spectral, spooky, visionary), призрак (bogeyman, ghost, illusion, phantasm 1, shadow, shape, specter, spectre, spright, wraith), иллюзия (delusion, hallucination, illusion, illusion that, phantasm, rope of sand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utvara (apparition, haunt, simulacrum, wraith), fantomski, fantom (eidolon), avet (apparition, bogey, bogle, ghost, specter, spook, visitant). (various references)

Spanish

fantasma (bogey, bogie, ghost, hallucination, phantasm, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith). (various references)

Sranan

spuku (ghost), bakru (ghost), azema (ghost, vampire). (various references)

Swedish

spöke (apparition, bogey, boggard, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, ghost, specter, spectre, spirit, spook), vålnad (ghost, phantasm, wraith), skepnad (figure, likeness, phantasm, semblance, shape), fantom (dummy). (various references)

Turkish

tayf (phantasm, spectrum), siluet (phantasm, shade, shadow, silhouette), organ modeli, hortlak (ghost, ghoul, spook), hayali görüntü (phantasm), hayalet (apparition, ghost, phantasm, shade, shades, shadow, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith), fantom. (various references)

Ukrainian

ілюзія (deception, delusion, illusion, mare's nest, phantasm, phasm), фантом (phantasm), примара (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogie, caddy, eidolon, ghost, illusion, poltergeist). (various references)

Welsh

drychiolaeth (apparition). (various references)

Yucatec

xtaabay (demon, ghost). (various references)

phantasma. (various references)

fantasma, imagine, imaginem, imagines, imagini, imaginis, imago, lamina, larva, phasma. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "phantom": phantomlike, phantoms. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Phantom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fandom, khanoum, pantome, phant, phanthom, phantomed, phatom, phaton, phenom, phonom, phontom, photom. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: potman, tampon.

-2 letters: month, panto, toman.

-3 letters: atom, atop, hant, mano, math, moan, moat, moth, noma, nota, oath, opah, pant, path, phat, phon, phot, tamp, than, toph.

-4 letters: amp, ant, apt, ham, hao, hap, hat, hon, hop, hot, man, map, mat, mho, moa, mon, mop, mot, nah, nam, nap, noh, nom, not, nth, oat.

+1 letter: phantoms.

+2 letters: taphonomy.

+3 letters: homopteran, morphactin, phonematic, pitchwoman, protohuman, taphonomic.

+4 letters: amphictyony, homopterans, hymenoptera, metanephroi, metanephros, misanthrope, misanthropy, morphactins, nonemphatic, phantomlike, prognathism, protohumans, taphonomies, taphonomist.

+5 letters: actinomorphy, amphictyonic, camphorating, enantiomorph, epithalamion, hymenopteran, magnetograph, metallophone, misanthropes, misanthropic, panchromatic, parathormone, phentolamine, photodynamic, photomapping, photomontage, pneumothorax, prognathisms, prothalamion, sycophantism, taphonomists.