apparition
/ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/ noun C2- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself. · The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.· The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
- The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
- A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
Plural apparitions
From the library
“Which of you is Holmes?” asked this apparition.
I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
You say that before Sir Charles Baskerville’s death several people saw this apparition upon the moor?”
With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was, indeed, a strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path.
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