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 →

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 →
• The spectre grinned at me. tree →
• The spectre told me where the treasure lay. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spectre» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.