[ˈfantaz(ə)m], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an illusion, apparition, or ghost
(e.g: the cart seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘deceptive appearance’): from Old French fantasme, via Latin from Greek phantasma, from phantazein ‘make visible’, from phainein ‘to show’. The change from f- to ph- in the 16th century was influenced by the Latin spelling