Meaning

5 senses
  1. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

    Erscheinen, Erscheinung

    появле́ниеpojavlénije, явле́ниеjavlénije

    поя́ваpojáva

    an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly

  2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.

    Erscheinung

    явле́ниеjavlénije

    об'я́вленняobʺjávlennja, з'я́вленняzʺjávlennja

  3. 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.

    Erscheinung, Gespenst

    привиде́ниеprividénije, при́зракprízrak

    при́видprývyd, прима́раprymára

  4. The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.

    Erscheinung

  5. 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.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Are you an apparition?

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  2. Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?

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  3. Diego saw an apparition in the woods.

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  4. Lucy seemed stiffened to stone by this unexpected apparition.

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  5. Oh!! I just saw an apparition!!

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
act of becoming visible:
thing appearing:
unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance:
Русский
By meaning 2
act of becoming visible:
unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
act of becoming visible:
unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance:

Origin

From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.

From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.

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