Definitions for fantoms

fantoms fan·tom

Spelling: [fan-tuh m]
IPA: /ˈfæn təm/

Fantoms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in fantoms (afmnost).

Definitions for fantoms

noun

  1. an apparition or specter.
  2. an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion.
  3. a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.:
  4. an illustration, part of which is given a transparent effect so as to permit representation of details otherwise hidden from view, as the inner workings of a mechanical device.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory:
  2. Electricity. noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit.
  3. named, included, or recorded but nonexistent; fictitious:

noun, adjective

  1. phantom.

Origin of fantoms

1250-1300; Middle English fantosme Middle French, Old French Latin phantasma phantasm

Examples for fantoms

Losing the power to believe with vital faith in God and in the soul, men cling to the fantom life of cheap and vulgar pleasures.

Well, Mr. fantom, you are a wonderful man to keep up such a stock of benevolence at so small an expense.

We willingly call a fantom our fellow, as knowing we shall soon be of their dark companionship.

"I do not understand these things," said fantom, making toward the door.

"Yes, but one may, if it is only by signing one's name to an essay or paragraph in a newspaper," said fantom.

"I see plain enough what it is," said Mr. fantom, sitting down again without the least emotion.

Mr. fantom believed, not in proportion to the strength of the evidence, but to the impudence of the assertion.

At the left, an aged man, or fantom shade, leaned for support against the throne.

The instant he opened the parlor door he eagerly cried out, "Where is the poor woman, Mr. fantom?"

When the fire was quite out, and Mr. Trueman could be of no further use, he went back to Mr. fantom's.

Word Value for fantoms
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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