# apparition
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/
* (US) IPA: /ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/, /ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

apparition (plural apparitions)
* An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
** 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
** 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.
* The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
** 1709 August 27 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Tuesday, August 16, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 55; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:[…] which apparition, it seems, was you.The spelling has been modernized.
* An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
    Synonyms: vision; see also Thesaurus:ghost
    Coordinate term: theophany
    The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
    The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
    He spoke to the apparition, and although its lips did not move, he somehow heard its reply.
** 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:I think it is the weakness of mine eyes / That shapes this monstrous apparition.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:The heavenly bands […] a glorious apparition.
** 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:The apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition.
* (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
* (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.

#### Derived terms

* apparitional
* apparitionist
* disapparition
* rank of apparition
* reapparition

#### Related terms

* apparent
* appearance

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## French
### Etymology

From Latin appāritiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.pa.ʁi.sjɔ̃/
* Audio; “une apparition”:(file)

### Noun

apparition f (plural apparitions)
* appearance
* ghost
    Synonym: fantôme
* (baseball) plate appearance
    Synonyms: apparition au bâton, présence, présence au bâton

#### Derived terms

* faire son apparition

### Further reading

* “apparition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.