fantôme

Definitions of fantôme
  1. noun
    a mental representation of some haunting experience
    synonyms: esprit, spectre
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    type of:
    apparition
    something existing in perception only
  2. noun
    a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
    synonyms: esprit
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    type of:
    auteur, écrivain
    writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  3. noun
    the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
    synonyms: esprit
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    types:
    esprit frappeur
    a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder
    type of:
    âme
    the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
  4. noun
    a ghostly appearing figure
    synonyms: apparition
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    type of:
    esprit
    any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
  5. noun
    something existing in perception only
    synonyms: apparition
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    types:
    objet volant non identifié, soucoupe volante
    an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
    esprit, spectre
    a mental representation of some haunting experience
    type of:
    illusion
    an erroneous mental representation
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