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# spectre

«spectre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a ghost, or a frightening image of a ghost** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (US spelling specter; plural spectres)

### meaning for a pupil

A spectre is a ghost, or a frightening image of a ghost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and ghost stories, a spectre is the ghost of a dead person, often one that returns to speak to a living person

### examples

- It was the spectre of her child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#x1)
- The spectre grinned at me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#x2)
- The spectre told me where the treasure lay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spectre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spectre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.