Ghost

Quick meaning: Ghost is a noun meaning A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (Christianity, literary, chiefly archaic) A spirit; a human soul.
2. (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
3. (cleaning) A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
4. (writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.
5. A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
6. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).
7. 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).

Example Sentences

He believes in ghosts.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.

hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne.

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

Word Forms

• ghosts
• ghoast
• ghosting
• ghosted

Synonyms for ghost

Depending on context, synonyms include apparition, bogey, phantom, revenant, specter, spook.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wraith, specter, spectre, spook, haunt, obsess.

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