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spectres

spectres is the plural of spectre.

Meaning of spectre

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

Phrases with spectres

Questions about spectres

What is spectres the plural of?
Spectres is the plural of spectre.

Words near spectres in the dictionary

  1. spectre bat
  2. spectre bats
  3. spectre of the Brocken
  4. spectred
  5. spectrelike
  6. spectres
  7. spectres at the feast
  8. spectrin
  9. spectrinopathies
  10. spectrinopathy
  11. spectrins

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