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- Dictionaryghost/ɡōst/
noun
- 1. an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image: "the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk" Similar
verb
- 1. act as ghostwriter of (a work): "his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist"
- 2. glide smoothly and effortlessly: "they ghosted up the river"
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The meaning of GHOST is the seat of life or intelligence : soul. How to use ghost in a sentence.
GHOST definition: 1. the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that…. Learn more.
A ghost is the spirit of a person who's died. In most stories and myths, ghosts are pale, translucent, and wispy.
1. the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom. 2. a haunting memory: the ghost of his former life rose up before him. 3. a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer: a ghost of a smile.
noun. I. An animating or vital principle; a person's spirit or soul. I.1. Old English–. The animating or vital principle in humans and animals; that which gives life to the body, in contrast to its purely material being; the life force, the breath of life. Now rare except in expressions relating to death, esp. to give up the ghost.
noun. ghosts. The spirit or soul. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A dead person's disembodied spirit, esp. when thought of as appearing to the living as a pale, shadowy apparition. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A haunting memory. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A faint, shadowy semblance; inkling.
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel. ...the ghost of Marie Antoinette. Synonyms: spirit, soul, phantom, spectre More Synonyms of ghost. 2. countable noun. The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
