phantom

US: /ˈfænəm/, /ˈfæntəm/
UK: /fˈɑːntəm/


English Vietnamese dictionary


phantom /'fæntəm/
  • danh từ ((từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (cũng) fantom)
    • ma, bóng ma
    • ảo ảnh, ảo tượng, ảo tưởng
    • (định ngữ) hão huyền, ma, không có thực
      • a phantom ship: con tàu ma

Advanced English dictionary


noun, adjective
+ noun
1 a ghost: the phantom of his dead father
2 a thing that exists only in your imagination: Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
+ adjective [only before noun]
1 like a ghost: a phantom horseman
2 existing only in your imagination: phantom fears / illnesses + a phantom pregnancy (= a condition in which a woman seems to be pregnant but in fact is not)
3 that people think exists but that in fact does not: phantom assets / profits

Thesaurus dictionary


n.
1 apparition, spectre, ghost, spirit, phantasm, shade, wraith, revenant, vision, Formal eidolon, phantasma, Colloq spook:
The so-called phantom of the opera turned out to be a real person.
2 figment (of the imagination), illusion, delusion, chimera or chimaera, hallucination, fancy, mirage:
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight.

Concise English dictionary


Phantoms|phantoms'fæntəm
noun
+a ghostly appearing figure
+something existing in perception only
adj.
+something apparently sensed but having no physical reality