Definitions for Ghost
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectrenoun

   a mental representation of some haunting experience

   "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

2. ghostwriter, ghostnoun

   a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

3. ghostnoun

   the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

4. touch, trace, ghostverb

   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. ghostverb

   move like a ghost

   "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

6. haunt, obsess, ghostverb

   haunt like a ghost; pursue

   "Fear of illness haunts her"

7. ghost, ghostwriteverb

   write for someone else

   "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ghostnoun

   The spirit; the soul of man.

   Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. uE000102364uE001 Spenser

2. ghostnoun

   The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

3. ghostnoun

   Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.

4. ghostnoun

   A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

5. ghostnoun

   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.

6. ghostnoun

   A ghostwriter.

7. ghostnoun

   A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.

   Before all else, we speak to the land to the ghosts and spirits of this place known to many as pixies, fairies, brownies, or elfs. (Math Jones)

8. ghostnoun

   An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.

9. ghostnoun

   an image of a file or hard disk.

10. ghostverb

    To haunt.

11. ghostverb

    To ghostwrite.

12. ghostverb

    to copy a file or hard drive image.

13. ghostnoun

    An understudy.

14. ghostnoun

    A covert (and deniable) agent.

15. Etymology: From gost, gast, from gast, from gaistaz, from ǵʰeizd-. Cognate with ghaist, geast, geest, Geist, gast, हेड.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Ghostnoun

   the spirit; the soul of man

2. Ghostnoun

   the disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter

3. Ghostnoun

   any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea

4. Ghostnoun

   a false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses

5. Ghostverb

   to die; to expire

6. Ghostverb

   to appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition

7. Etymology: [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Ghost

   In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a séance. The belief in manifestations of the spirits of the dead is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices—funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of spiritualism and ritual magic—are specifically designed to rest the spirits of the dead. Ghosts are generally described as solitary essences that haunt particular locations, objects, or people they were associated with in life, though stories of phantom armies, ghost trains, phantom ships, and even ghost animals have also been recounted.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. ghost

   A false image in the lens of an instrument.

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1. ghostadjective

   Out of here: "I'm ghost".

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Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Ghost

   One employed by an author or an artist to do his work for him, so called because, his name and personality being withheld from the public, he is kept in the shade. In other words, he is a mere shadow of his master. Originally, however, the term had reference to the friend who had inspired or suggested the work.

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1. • Author
   • Authorship
   • Move
   • Soul
   • Writer

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Ghost' in Nouns Frequency: #1824

Anagrams for Ghost »

1. goths, Goths

2. Goths

How to pronounce Ghost?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say Ghost in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Ghost in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Ghost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Ghost in a Sentence

1. Kedar Joshi:

   History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

2. Grace Murray Hopper:

   if you want my ghost just say ' we've always done it that way.' and I will haunt you for 24 hours.

3. Erick Allen:

   I was not planning to lose to a ghost candidate.

4. Sudarshan Suchi:

   If previously an earthquake or flood came into a small village or colony, everybody came together and found ways to rescue. When Covid comes, the first thought everybody has is keep away, it's an unknown ghost. People with collective spirit and traditions of community action are partly wary today of these kinds of things.

5. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!

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