phantom

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   something apparently sensed but having no physical reality

   seemed to hear faint phantom bells

2. 2
   adj

   Illusive.

   […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”

3. 3
   adj

   Fictitious or nonexistent.

   a phantom limb

4. 4
   noun

   A Rolls-Royce Phantom automobile.

   Paul pulled out the Phantom; niggas can't stand it but them hoes gonna come out.

5. 5
   noun

   something existing in perception only

6. 6
   noun

   a ghostly appearing figure

7. 7
   noun

   A ghost or apparition.

8. 8
   noun

   Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.