Usually means: Manifestation of something ghostly seen.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. apparition: Merriam-Webster
  2. apparition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apparition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apparition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apparition: Vocabulary.com
  6. apparition: Wordnik
  7. apparition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apparition: Wiktionary
  9. apparition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apparition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apparition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apparition, apparition: Dictionary.com
  13. apparition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. apparition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Apparition (Burning Inside album), Apparition (EP), Apparition (Harry Potter), Apparition (comics), Apparition (company), Apparition (disambiguation), Apparition, The Apparition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Apparition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. apparition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. apparition: Rhymezone
  19. apparition, apparition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. apparition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. apparition: FreeDictionary.org
  22. apparition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. apparition: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Apparition: Wordnik
  25. apparition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. apparition: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apparition (supernatural), apparition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apparition (supernatural), apparition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apparition (supernatural), apparition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apparition: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Apparition: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See apparitional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
noun:  The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
noun:  An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
noun:  (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
noun:  (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.

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