Spectre

Definition: Spectre

Spectre

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".

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

Date "spectre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

"Spectre" is a common misspelling or typo for: specter, spectra.

SPECTRE

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

Synonyms: Spectre

Crosswords: Spectre

French (ghost, phantom, spectre, spectrum, wraith).

Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Out 1: Spectre (1972)

Le Spectre vert (1930)

Narcotic Spectre (1914)

The Spectre Bridegroom (1913)

Le Spectre (1899)

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

Books

• Flying Gunship: The Ac-130 Spectre (High-Tech Military Weapons) (reference)

• Gunship: Spectre of Death (reference)

• Spectre (reference)

• Spectre (Star Trek) (reference)

• Spectre of the Black Rose (Ravenloft Terror of Lord Soth, Vol. 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Spectre Magazine (reference)

• The Spectre (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gatchaman, Vol. 2: The Red Spectre (reference)

• Spectre of the Rose (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 56: Spectre Of The Gun (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Marin Marais · Sainte-Colombe ~ The Greatest Masterworks / Spectre de la Rose (reference)

• Spectre Within [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Spectre (reference)

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

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The Treasury Spectre, : or the Head of the Nation in a Queer Situation. / Designed by Mary Cruikshank. [I. Cruikshank]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A good view of the spectre. Credit: Library of Congress.

The red spectre of revolution / Coffin. Credit: Library of Congress.

The spectre still stalks] / Parrish. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. (reference)

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Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands

It may be, that his pathway through life was haunted thus, by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts

That spectre, the past, not unfrequently, falsifies its passport

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "spectre": Brocken spectre. Additional references.

Beginning with "spectre": spectre-hound, spectre-like.

Albanian

lugat (basilisk, bogey, boggard, Bogle, cockatrice, fright, hob, hobgoblin, turn-skin), fantazmë (apparition, eidolon, ghost, haunt, phantasm, phantom, spirit, wraith). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شبح (apparition, bogey, evil spirit, ghost, gremlin, idol, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectrum, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Bulgarian 

привидение (boggard, eidolon, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shape, vision, visitant), призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spirit, spook, vision, wraith). (various references)

Chinese 

幽灵 (Phantom, specter, spook). (various references)

Czech

strašidlo (bugbear, fright, ghost, poltergeist, spirit, spook), zjevení (apocalypse, apparition, eye opener, phantom, revelation, wraith), přízrak (apparition, chimera, double, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spirit, vision, wraith), duch (apparition, esprit, ghost, gimp, mind, psyche, soul, spirit, spook). (various references)

Finnish

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

French

spectre (spectrum), fantôme. (various references)

German

Schreckgespenst (bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, nightmare), Gespenst (ghost, phantom, specter, spectres, spook, wraith). (various references)

Greek 

φάσμα (phantasm, range, specter, spectrum, vision, wraith). (various references)

Hungarian

szellem (appearance, cock of the walk, genious, ghost, intellect, jinn, jinnee, jinni, mind, moral, morale, poltergeist, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spirit, spook, wit), kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shadow, specter, spook, vampire, wraith). (various references)

Italian

spettro (ghost, shadow, specter, spectrum, spirit, spook, wraith), fantasma (apparition, bogeyman, ghost, ghoul, phantom, shadow, specter, wraith). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

化物 (apparition, ghost, goblin, monster, phantom), 化け物 (apparition, ghost, goblin, monster, phantom), スペイン風邪 (Spanish influenza, spectacle, specter, speculation, speculator), スペクタクル� �"� (spectacular film, spectral, spectrum), 妖怪 (apparition, demon, ghost, goblin, monster, phantom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばけもの (apparition, ghost, goblin, monster, phantom), スペクトル (spectral), スペクター (specter), ようかい (apparition, demon, fusing, ghost, goblin, melting, monster, phantom, solution). (various references)

Korean 

� � � (ghost, specter). (various references)

Manx

scaan (apparition, double, ghost, reflection, spirit, spook), arraght (apparition, laughter). (various references)

Pig Latin

ectrespay.(various references)

Portuguese

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

Romanian

stihie (element, ghost, nature), stafie (apparition, ghost, shadow, spook), spirit (apparition, crack, essence, genius, ghost, intellect, mind, quirk, score, shade, shadow, soul, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), spectru (apparition, fetch, ghost, spectrum, spirit), nãlucã (apparition, chimera, ghost, shape, spook), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spook, wraith, zombie), apariţie (advent, apparition, appearance, arrival, birth, emergence, entry, ghost, issue, occurrence, peep, phantom, shape, sight, vision). (various references)

Russian 

призрак (bogeyman, ghost, illusion, phantasm 1, phantom, shadow, shape, specter, spright, wraith). (various references)

Scottish

arrachd, aibhse. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spektar (spectrum). (various references)

Spanish

fantasma (bogey, bogie, ghost, hallucination, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spook, wraith), espectro (bogey, bogie, bogy, ghost, specter, spectrum, spook). (various references)

Swedish

spöke (apparition, bogey, boggard, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, ghost, phantom, specter, spirit, spook). (various references)

Turkish

vesvese (anxiety, delusion, solicitude, specter), kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), hayalet (apparition, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shades, shadow, specter, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, vision, waking dream), ürkütücü şey (dread, specter). (various references)

Ukrainian

привид (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogy, caddy, eidolon, ghost, haunter, poltergeist, presence, spook, waff, wraith), погане передчуття (presage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

điều lo ngại ám ảnh (specter). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spectre": spectres. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recepts, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter.

-1 letter: certes, creeps, crepes, erects, pester, peters, preset, recept, resect, secret, terces.

-2 letters: cepes, ceres, cetes, creep, crepe, crept, crest, erect, ester, peers, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, reest, reset, scree, speer, spree, steep, steer, stere, strep, terce, terse, trees.

-3 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, cere, cete, erst, pecs, peer, pees, pert, pest, pets, pree.

+1 letter: crepiest, excerpts, percents, percepts, perfects, precents, precepts, prefects, prelects, receipts, respects, scepters, sceptred, sceptres, specters, spectres.

+2 letters: accepters, becarpets, cerotypes, copresent, creepiest, depicters, perfectas, perfectos, persecute, picketers, pocketers, praefects, praelects, precisest, preelects, preenacts, preerects, prentices, prescient, preselect, pretences, prosected, prosecute, reaccepts, recarpets, receptors, reinspect, repatches, respected, respecter, sceptered, supercute, tricepses.

+3 letters: archetypes, carpenters, cooperates, copresents, crepitates, deprecates, disrespect, epicenters, escarpment, excerpters, excerptors, imperfects, imprecates, intercepts, interspace, pacesetter, pederastic, percolates, perfecters, perfectest, persecuted, persecutee, persecutes, persecutor, preachiest, precedents, precentors, preceptors, predicates, preselects, princelets, procreates, prosecuted, prosecutes, prospected, puckeriest, putrescent, putrescine, recaptures, receptions, recipients, recomputes, reinspects, replicates, resculpted, respecters, respectful, respecting, respective, retrospect, sceptering, spermaceti, spirochete, waterscape.