phantom

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ghost or apparition. countable,uncountable
  2. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion. countable,uncountable
  3. A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing. countable,uncountable
  4. A test object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue. countable,uncountable
  5. Short for phantom power abbreviation,alt-of,colloquial,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Illusive. not-comparable
    — […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
  2. Fictitious or nonexistent. not-comparable
    — a phantom limb

词形变化

phantoms plural fantom alternative,archaic fantom alternative,archaic

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
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