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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ap•pa•ri•tion /ˌæpəˈrɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a ghostly appearance:thought she saw the apparition of her late husband.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ap•pa•ri•tion (ap′ə rish′ən),USA pronunciation n. - a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost;
a specter or phantom;
wraith:a ghostly apparition at midnight. - anything that appears, esp. something remarkable or startling:the surprising apparition of cowboys in New York City.
- an act of appearing;
manifestation. - Astronomythe appearance or time when a comet, esp. a periodic one, is visible:the 1986 apparition of Halley's comet.
- Late Latin appāritiōn- (stem of appāritiō, as calque of Greek epipháneia epiphany), equivalent. to Latin appārit(us) (past participle of appārēre; see appear) + -iōn- -ion
- Anglo-French, Old French
- late Middle English apparicio(u)n 1400–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged spirit, shade. Apparition, phantasm, phantom are terms for a supernatural appearance. An apparition of a person or thing is an immaterial appearance that seems real, and is generally sudden or startling in its manifestation:an apparition of a headless horseman.Both phantom and phantasm denote an illusory appearance, as in a dream; the former may be pleasant, while the latter is usually frightening:a phantom of loveliness; a monstrous phantasm.
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