apparition

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/    美 /ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/|/ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
    — the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
  2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
    — […] which apparition, it seems, was you.
  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.
  4. The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
  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.

词形变化

apparitions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
apparitional apparitionist disapparition rank of apparition reapparition
相关词
apparent appearance

词源

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