spectre

UK ( US specter)

/ˈspektər/ noun

Translation

the spectre of sth › the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future

korkunç hayal, kâbus

This attack raises the spectre of a return to racial violence.11141181

› [C] literary a ghost (= dead person's spirit)

hayalet

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(Definition of spectre noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

everything that exists or is possible

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