| 1. type of American bomber jet. spirit, ghost, demon; hallucination, illusion, product of the imagination. illusory, imaginary, unreal. phantomphantom, a. being, or of the nature of, a phantom. phantom isles are floating in the skies. taylor.phantom phantom , n. [oe. fantome, fantosme, fantesme, of. fantÃ'me, fr. l. phantasma, gr. , fr. to show. see: fancy, and cf. phaëton, phantasm, phase.] that which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. she was a phantom of delight.phantom ship. see: flying dutchman, under flying.phantom tumor (med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumor in appearance, but disappearing upon the administration of an an?sthetic.phantom something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; seemed to hear faint phantom bells; the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb n |
