phantom
noun
[ ˈfantəm ]
• a ghost.
• "a phantom who haunts lonely roads"
Similar:
ghost,
apparition,
spirit,
spectre,
wraith,
shadow,
bodach,
duppy,
spook,
phantasm,
shade,
revenant,
wight,
eidolon,
manes,
Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘illusion, delusion’): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma (see phantasm).
