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revenant

English

Etymology

19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (to return). Compare revenue.

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v?n?nt/

Noun

revenant (plural revenants)

  1. Someone who returns from a long absence.
    • 1886, Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew viii, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
      They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
    • 1895 August 31, Daily News 4/7, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
      The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
    • 2008, Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature, Camden House, ?ISBN, page 91:
      From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant, who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: []
  2. A person or thing reborn.
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, page 184:
      Sometimes [] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
  3. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
      For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:ghost

Translations

Adjective

revenant (comparative more revenant, superlative most revenant)

  1. Returning.
    • 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House (2008), page 134:
      On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.

Anagrams

  • Tavenner, venerant

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.v(?).n??/

Verb

revenant

  1. present participle of revenir

Noun

revenant m (plural revenants, feminine revenante)

  1. A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
  2. A person who returns after a long absence

Further reading

  • “revenant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • énervant, vénérant

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phantom

English

Alternative forms

  • fantom (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English fantom, fantum, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phántasma, phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter), from ??????? (phantáz?, I make visible). Doublet of phantasm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fænt?m/

Noun

phantom (plural phantoms)

  1. A ghost or apparition.
  2. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
  3. (bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
  4. (medical imaging) A test object. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

  • ghost
  • See also Thesaurus:ghost

Derived terms

  • phantom limb
  • phantom pain

Related terms

  • fantasy

Translations

Adjective

phantom (not comparable)

  1. Illusive.
  2. Fictitious or nonexistent.

Translations

Further reading

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “phantom”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

  • Hampton

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