ghost

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /gəʊst/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /goʊst/

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Noun

Singular ghost

Plural ghosts

1. (countable) (old, no longer used) A ghost is the spirit or soul of a man.
2. (countable) A ghost is the soul of a dead person that shows up after death.

   The house was haunted by the ghost of the little boy who used to live here.

3. (countable) A ghost is any faint thing that looks like a shadow.
4. (countable) A ghost is a ghostwriter.

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Synonyms

• (soul): soul, spirit
• (spirit that shows up after death): apparition, phantom, revenant, specter / spectre, wraith
• (faint shadowy thing): glimmer, glimmering
• (ghostwriter): ghostwriter

Related words

• ghostly
• ghostlike
• ghost crab
• ghost island
• ghost ship
• ghost story
• ghost town
• Holy Ghost

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