Meaning

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death..

Definitions by Sense

1. A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
2. (Christianity, literary, chiefly archaic) A spirit; a human soul.
3. (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
4. A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
5. (cleaning) A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
6. (writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
7. A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
8. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).

Example Sentences

Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.

He believes in ghosts.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.

I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost

For a moment I was puzzled, but presently, of course, it struck me that he must have seen Ayesha, wrapped in her grave-like garment, and been deceived by the extraordinary undulating smoothness of her walk into a belief that she was a white ghost gliding towards him.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne.

Enlightening the eyes and a taste for hope, emotions are felt from an inward ghost.

Word Forms

• ghosts
• ghoast
• gost
• ghosting
• ghosted

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