Definitions
a mental representation of some haunting experience
Word origin
From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.
Used in a sentence
“A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.”
“Already, the specter of higher interest rates was causing the housing market to seize up.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Ghostly apparition”7 letters
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