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fantasma — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  • ghosting noun The practice of ending a friendship, romance or working relationship by suddenly cutting off all contact and ignoring every message, without any explanation.
  • phantom noun A ghost or ghostly figure; something that appears real but has no physical substance.
  • revenant noun A spirit or reanimated corpse said to return from the dead, as in folklore or horror fiction.
  • wraith noun A ghost or ghostly figure, especially one believed to appear around the time of a person's death.

Senses

fantasma is used for these senses in English:

  • ghost A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
  • ghost An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
  • ghosting The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.
  • phantom Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
  • revenant A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
  • wraith A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

ghost — full definition

  1. noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  2. verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
  3. verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
  4. verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.

ghosting — full definition

  1. noun The practice of ending a friendship, romance or working relationship by suddenly cutting off all contact and ignoring every message, without any explanation.
  2. verb Present participle of ghost: to disappear from someone's life without warning or explanation.
  3. noun A faint secondary image that appears beside or behind the intended one on a screen, print or photograph.

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