What is another word for phantoms?

Pronunciation: [fˈantəmz] (IPA)

Phantoms refer to spirits, ghosts or apparitions that appear mysteriously. There are many synonyms for the word 'phantoms', and they include specters, shades, wraiths, apparitions, and spooks. These synonyms have been used to describe phantom-like figures that act as supernatural beings in many cultures and myths. Shadows, illusions, hallucinations, and mirages are also often associated with the word phantom. They can be found in various forms, some benevolent and some evil, but they are always intriguing and awe-inspiring. The world of phantoms has always been an enduring theme in literature, movies, and TV series, which reflects our fascination and curiosity about the spirit world.

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Usage examples for Phantoms

The shifting mirages seemed like the ghosts of dead armies, magnified and transfigured, huge and spectral, moving along the horizon and bearing the wind-tossed phantoms of golden blood-stained banners.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Returning to the window, she saw such fearful phantoms in the darkness that she ran, bareheaded, into the street, and up the hill to her father's house.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Local information there is none, but I have spoons and phantoms, and so-who knows!
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch

Famous quotes with Phantoms

  • The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
    Gaston Bachelard
  • Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
    Emma Goldman
  • There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
    Ernest Hello
  • Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
  • The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo

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