Definitions for apparition

apparition ap·pa·ri·tion

Spelling: [ap-uh-rish-uh n]
IPA: /ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən/

Apparition is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 363 anagrams from letters in apparition (aaiinopprt).

Definitions for apparition

noun

  1. a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith:
  2. anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling:
  3. an act of appearing; manifestation.
  4. Astronomy. the appearance or time when a comet, especially a periodic one, is visible:

Origin of apparition

1400-50; late Middle English apparicio(u)n Anglo-French, Old French Late Latin appāritiōn- (stem of appāritiō, as calque of Greek epipháneia epiphany), equivalent

Examples for apparition

One of the most interested suitors, sources say, is Bob Berney, an indie veteran and the co-founder of apparition.

Back to the locked gate—with perhaps the apparition following him?

She had not spoken to him since he had told the story of his apparition.

Guess, my Olivia, what apparition I met at the door of my box to-night.

His challenge to use this week to cast the race as between two flesh-and-blood men, not the apparition of 2008.

Hewson appreciated this as soon as he realized that he had been confronted with an apparition.

In his reticence he had the sense of atoning not only to the apparition but to Miss Hernshaw too.

I call it an apparition, because that's the shortest way out.

Mukamazimpaka also last reported seeing an apparition in 1989.

And then Further is gone, back on the road, like a time-traveling relic from another era or an apparition of Jerry Garcia.

Word Value for apparition
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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