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?

  2. Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?

  3. Diego saw an apparition in the woods.

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

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

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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Forms

plural: apparitions
Singularapparition
Pluralapparitions

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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