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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: fantosme, from Latin phantasma; PHANTASM

phantom

1 noun
     
phan‧tom1 [countable] literary
1 the image of a dead person or strange thing that someone thinks they see [= ghost]
2 something that exists only in your imagination
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