Associations to the word «Specter»

Wiktionary

SPECTER, noun. A ghostly apparition.
SPECTER, noun. A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
SPECTER AT THE FEAST, noun. Alternative spelling of spectre at the feast

Dictionary definition

SPECTER, noun. A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past".
SPECTER, noun. A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope