Definitions for spectre

Overview of noun spectre

The noun spectre has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre

(a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us")

2. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre

(a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past")