Definition of ghost Ghost
/gowˈst/ - [gowst] - ghost
We found 34 definitions of ghost from 8 different sources.
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What does ghost mean?
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NounPlural: ghosts |
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| ghost - the visible disembodied soul of a dead person | ||
| psyche, soul (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul | ||
| poltergeist a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder | ||
| ghost - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" | ||
| shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre | ||
| fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, apparition, shadow an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger" | ||
| ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | ||
| ghostwriter | ||
| author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | ||
| ghost - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" | ||
| touch, trace | ||
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| ghost - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" | ||
| ghostwrite | ||
| author be the author of; "She authored this play" | ||
| penning, authorship, writing, composition the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed" | ||
| ghost - move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| ghost - haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" | ||
| haunt, obsess | ||
| preoccupy engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; "His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- ghost (Noun)
The spirit; the soul of man. - ghost (Noun)
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. - ghost (Noun)
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering. - ghost (Noun)
A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. - ghost (Noun)
An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection. - ghost (Noun)
A ghostwriter. - ghost (Noun)
An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server. - ghost (Noun)
An image of a file or hard disk . - ghost (Noun)
An understudy. - ghost (Noun)
A covert and deniable agent. - ghost (Noun)
The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti. - ghost (Verb)
To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition. - ghost (Verb)
To die; to expire. - ghost (Verb)
To ghostwrite. - ghost (Verb)
To copy a file or hard drive image. - ghost (Verb)
To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ghost (n.)
The spirit; the soul of man. - ghost (n.)
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. - ghost (n.)
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. - ghost (n.)
A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. - ghost (v. i.)
To die; to expire. - ghost (v. t.)
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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ghost
The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ghost
gōst, n. the soul of man: a spirit appearing after death: (Shak.) a dead body: (slang) one who writes a statesman's speeches for him, &c.—v.i. to appear to.—adj. Ghost′-like.—n. Ghost′liness.—adj. Ghost′ly, spiritual, religious: pertaining to apparitions.—ns. Ghost′-moth, a species of moth very common in Britain, its caterpillar destructive to hop-gardens; Ghost′-stō′ry, a story in which ghosts figure; Ghost′-word, a fictitious word that has originated in the blunder of a scribe or printer—common in dictionaries.—Give up the ghost (B.), to die.—Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, the third person in the Trinity. [A.S. gást; Ger. geist.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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ghost
A false image in the lens of an instrument.
Wikipedia 
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A ghost is considered to be the spirit of a dead person. Scientists say that there are no real ghosts, but many people believe that there are.
There are many stories about ghosts in books and movies. Sometimes the ghost is the spirit of a person who was killed by enemies or who died in a scary way. The ghost may stay on Earth because he or she is angry due to some problem in life and wants to scare people or to harm his or her enemies. Sometimes ghosts are said to live in a particular locality, for example an abandoned house, and when occupants come they tease them to drive away or cause serious damage to the occupants.
Sometimes the ghosts in these stories exist because of some problem the person had during life, that was not solved before he or she died. The ghost stays on the Earth trying to fix the problem. If the problem is fixed, the ghost can leave the Earth. Many ghosts stay on Earth also because they have died younger or have had sudden or abrupt deaths. Many people claim to have seen or heard ghosts, and are called Mediums.
Many people believe they have seen ghosts. Others believe they have felt ghosts near them. Often the ghost is said to appear as a feeling of cold and a light or a misty cloud, but sometimes people say they have seen ghosts that look more like people. Sometimes ghosts are said to come in human form, that is, in the body of a person. Some ghosts might cause fear in the person who sees them, by being seen suddenly. Some ghosts are said to be friendl
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