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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

spectre

/ˈspɛktɚ/

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What does spectre mean?

noun

  1. UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈspɛktɚ/

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I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheusProject Gutenberg ebook #84
He could put off the consideration of any particular spectre till the matter had become old and softened by time.
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27
More book examples (3)
How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!
Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy HollowProject Gutenberg ebook #41
It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135