apparition

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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/, /ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/
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NounEdit

apparition (plural apparitions)

An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
  the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:
  The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- August 16, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 55
  […] which apparition, it seems, was you.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
  I think it is the weakness of mine eyes / That shapes this monstrous apparition.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  The heavenly bands […] a glorious apparition.
(astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
(astronomy) 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.

SynonymsEdit

(act of becoming visible): appearance
(a preternatural appearance): vision
See also Thesaurus:ghost

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

act of becoming visible

Bulgarian: появяване (pojavjavane)
Dutch: verschijning (nl) f
Finnish: ilmestyminen (fi), ilmaantuminen (fi)
French: apparition (fr) f

Italian: apparizione (it) f
Portuguese: aparição (pt) f, aparecimento (pt) m
Romanian: apariție (ro) f, ivire (ro) f
Russian: появле́ние (ru) n (pojavlénije)
Spanish: aparición (es) f
Swedish: framtoning (sv) c, uppträdande (sv) n, apparition (sv) c

thing appearing

Belarusian: з'я́вішча n (zʺjávišča), з'я́ва (be) f (zʺjáva)
Bulgarian: явле́ние (bg) n (javlénie)
Dutch: verschijning (nl) f
Finnish: ilmestys (fi)

Italian: apparizione (it) f
Maori: pōmariko, pōmārikoriko, mariko
Polish: zjawisko (pl) n
Portuguese: aparição (pt) f
Russian: явле́ние (ru) n (javlénije)
Ukrainian: я́вище (uk) n (jávyšče)

unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance

Bulgarian: привидение (bg) n (prividenie), видение (bg) n (videnie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幽靈 (zh), 幽灵 (zh) (yōulíng), 鬼魂 (zh) (guǐhún)
Dutch: verschijning (nl) f
Finnish: ilmestys (fi)
German: Erscheinung (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: φάντασμα n (phántasma), φάσμα n (phásma)
Hungarian: jelenés (hu)

Italian: apparizione (it) f
Latin: spectrum n
Macedonian: привидение n (prividenie)
Maori: mariko, pōmārikoriko, pōmariko
Portuguese: aparição (pt) f
Russian: привиде́ние (ru) n (prividénije), при́зрак (ru) m (prízrak)
Scottish Gaelic: sgàile f, tannasg m, taibhse m or f
Serbo-Croatian: prikaza (sh) f
Spanish: aparición (es) f
Swedish: andesyn c, spökbild c
Tagalog: bibit

astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured

Bulgarian: видимост (bg) (vidimost)
Finnish: ilmestyminen (fi)

Italian: apparizione (it) f
Portuguese: aparição (pt) f

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