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Plural of phantom

regular plural

The plural of phantom is phantoms.

Forms of phantom

Singularphantom /ˈfæntəm/
Pluralphantoms
Countablecountable and uncountable

Phantoms in a sentence

  • Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather!1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex. From the entry begather
  • But here comes woesome old me and my maw down the yard with battered suitcases arriving almost like phantoms dripping from the sea.2016, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels. From the entry woesome
  • The subtitle 'Adventures in Sonic Fiction' pinpointed the idea of dub as hallucinogenre, dub as a set of studio techniques for generating phantoms and phantasmagoria.2009, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise. From the entry hallucinogenre
  • Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.2007, Charlene E. Makley, “Introduction”, in The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University…. From the entry Xiahe
  • To calm their nerves and dispel the phantoms of their imaginations, the conventionnels proposed a series of fantastic draconian measures designed to insure tranquillity during the voting.1979, David P Jordan, The King's Trial, University of California, published 1979, page 178. From the entry conventionnel

Meaning of phantom

  1. noun A ghost or apparition.
  2. noun Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
  3. noun A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.

Full definition of phantom

Questions about the plural of phantom

What is the plural of phantom?
The plural of phantom is phantoms.
Is phantom countable?
Phantom is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phantom (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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