Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flying_dutchman

2 senses of flying dutchman

Sense 1
Flying Dutchman -- (the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day)
       => apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre -- (a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us")

Sense 2
Flying Dutchman -- (a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope)
       => apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow -- (something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight")