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spectre

spectre noun: UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.

Noun

spectre (plural spectres)

  1. UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264

spectre meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

spectre in Tamil

தோற்றரவு

spectre in Urdu

عفریت

spectre in Bengali

স্পেকটার

spectre in Telugu

స్పెక్టర్
More languagesFewer languages
spectre in Malayalam
ഭൂതം, പിശാച്
spectre in Kannada
ಸ್ಪೆಕ್ಟರ್
spectre in Gujarati
સ્પેક્ટર

Forms of spectre

pluralspectres

Words formed from spectre

Phrases with spectre

Questions about spectre

What does spectre mean?
Spectre means UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.
What is spectre in Tamil?
Spectre in Tamil is தோற்றரவு. See Spectre meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spectre?
Spectre is a noun.
What is the plural of spectre?
The plural of spectre is spectres.

Words near spectre in the dictionary

  1. spectrasexuality
  2. spectrasexuals
  3. spectratype
  4. spectratypes
  5. spectratyping
  6. spectre
  7. spectre at the feast
  8. spectre bat
  9. spectre bats
  10. spectre of the Brocken
  11. spectred

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spectre (page history and authors); spectre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spectre (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spectre (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spectre (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spectre (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spectre (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); spectre (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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