| \ap-uh-RISH-uh n\ | noun
1. a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith: a ghostly apparition at midnight.
2. anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling: the surprising apparition of cowboys in New York City.
| | Quotes | He turned his eyes towards the entrance and beheld a strange and dreadful apparition, a monstrous and fearful shape standing silently by his side.
-- , Plutarch, Parallel Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, 1917 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of apparition | | Apparition ultimately derives from the Latin verb appārēre meaning "to appear," itself a derivative from the Latin via Old French. It entered English in the early 1500s. | |
