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单词 phantom
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phantom

noun
/ˈfæntəm/
/ˈfæntəm/
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  1. a ghost
    • the phantom of his dead father
  2. a thing that exists only in your imagination
    • Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
  3. 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’.

phantom

adjective
/ˈfæntəm/
/ˈfæntəm/
[only before noun]
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  1. like a ghost
    • a phantom horseman
  2. existing only in your imagination
    • phantom profits
    • phantom illnesses
    • a phantom pregnancy (= a condition in which a woman seems to be pregnant but in fact is not)
  3. 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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