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phenomenon

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 28.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
  2. noun A knowable thing or event .
    An electromagnetic phenomenon.
  3. noun A kind or type of phenomenon .
    A volcanic eruption is an impressive phenomenon.
  4. noun Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
  5. noun A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
  6. noun A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
    The dot-coms are one of the most interesting 21st-century phenomenons.
  7. noun An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).

Similar words

thing existence manifestation reality appearance fact apparent situation feature visible

Often followed by

of is in that which and was has as

Word family

phenomena phenomenal phenomenons

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