Ghost

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Noun

ghost (plural: ghosts)

(Obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
Spenser.
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shakespeare.

I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.
A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
A ghostwriter.

Related terms

ghostly
Holy Ghost

Translations

Chemehuevi: ɨ'nɨp(i) (2)
German: Geist m (1, 2)
Hungarian: kísértet (2), szellem
Italian: fantasma m (2)
Maricopa: ʼish nyoym (2)
O'odham: cukut (2)
Slovene: duh m (1, 2), senca f (3, means 'shadow')
Spanish: fantasma m

WordNet Definitions

four

1. 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. ghostwriter, ghost -- (a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else).
3. ghost -- (the visible disembodied soul of a dead person).
4. 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").

three

1. ghost -- (move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard").
2. haunt, obsess, ghost -- (haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her").
3. ghost, ghostwrite -- (write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?").

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