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1. (n.) ghost
the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined as wandering, often in vague or evanescent form, among the living and sometimes haunting them; wraith.
2. ghost
a mere shadow or semblance; trace:
She's a ghost of her former self.
3. ghost
a remote possibility:
not a ghost of a chance.
4. ghost
the principle of life; soul; spirit.
5. ghost
a secondary, usu. faint or blurry image, as on a television screen or on a photographic negative or print.
6. (v.t.) ghost
to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
7. ghost
to haunt.
8. ghost
to die.
9. ghost
to cease to function or exist.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME goost, OE gāst, c. OFris gāst, OS gēst, OHG geist spirit)
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| Definition of 'Ghost' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre
a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
2. (noun) ghostwriter, ghost
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
3. (noun) ghost
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
4. (verb) touch, trace, 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"
5. (verb) ghost
move like a ghost
"The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
6. (verb) haunt, obsess, ghost
haunt like a ghost; pursue
"Fear of illness haunts her"
7. (verb) ghost, ghostwrite
write for someone else
"How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
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1. (noun) ghost
the spirit of a dead person
to believe in ghosts
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| Definition of 'Ghost' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Ghost
the spirit; the soul of man
2. (noun) Ghost
the disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter
3. (noun) Ghost
any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea
4. (noun) Ghost
a false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses
5. (verb) Ghost
to die; to expire
6. (verb) Ghost
to appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition
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Sense: a spirit, usually of a dead person
Do you believe in ghosts?; Hamlet thought he saw his father's ghost.
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 Afrikaans: spook |
 Arabic: شَبَح |
 Bulgarian: призрак |
 Brazilian: fantasma |
 Czech: duch |
 German: der Geist |
 Danish: ånd; spøgelse |
 Greek: φάντασμα |
 Spanish: fantasma |
 Estonian: vaim, tont |
 Farsi: روح |
 Finnish: aave |
 French: fantôme |
 Hebrew: רוח רפאים |
 Hindi: भूत |
 Croatian: duh, prikaza |
 Hungarian: szellem |
 Indonesian: hantu |
 Icelandic: draugur, afturganga |
 Italian: fantasma |
 Japanese: 幽霊 |
 Korean: 유령 |
 Lithuanian: dvasia,šmėkla, vaiduoklis |
 Latvian: parādība; rēgs; spoks |
 Malay: hantu |
 Dutch: spook |
 Norwegian: spøkelse, gjenferd |
 Polish: duch |
 Persian: روح |
 Pashto: شبح، روح، دمړه اروا( وائى |
 Portuguese: fantasma |
 Romanian: fantomă |
 Russian: привидение |
 Slovak: duch |
 Slovenian: duh |
 Serbian: duh |
 Swedish: spöke, vålnad |
 Thai: ผี |
 Turkish: hayalet |
 Taiwanese: 鬼魂 |
 Ukrainian: привид |
 Urdu: بھوت |
 Vietnamese: ma |
 Chinese: 幽灵，鬼 |
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