About The Word Ghost
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Ghost Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Ghost?
[n] a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
[n] a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" [n] the visible disembodied soul of a dead person [n] a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else [v] write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" [v] haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [v] move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ghost: ghostwrite | ghostwriter | haunt | obsess | shade | specter | spectre | spook | touch | trace | wraith Related Terms | Find terms related to Ghost: act for | advertising writer | agent | alternate | alternative | analogy | annalist | apparition | appearance | art critic | astral | astral spirit | author | authoress | backup | banshee | belletrist | bibliographer | black spot | bloom | blooping | bogey | bogeyman | boggart | bugaboo | bugbear | change | change places with | changeling | coauthor | collaborate | collaborator | columnist | comparison | compiler | compose | composer | control | copy | copywriter | counterfeit | creative writer | critic | crowd out | cut out | dance critic | dash off | definition | demon | departed spirit | deputy | devil | diarist | disembodied spirit | displace | Doppelganger | double | double for | Dracula | drama critic | dramatist | drift | dummy | duppy | dybbuk | editorialize | eidolon | encyclopedist | equal | equivalent | ersatz | essayist | exchange | fake | fee-faw-fum | fill in for | fill-in | flare | float | foot | form | formulate | Frankenstein | free lance | free-lance | free-lance writer | frightener | fringe area | ghostwrite | ghostwriter | ghoul | glide | glimmer | granulation | grateful dead | grid | guide | hallucination | hant | hard shadow | haunt | hint | hobgoblin | holy terror | horror | humorist | idolum | illusion | image | imitation | immateriality | incorporeal | incorporeal being | incorporeity | incubus | indite | inditer | knock off | knock out | larva | lemures | literary artist | literary craftsman | literary critic | literary man | litterateur | locum tenens | logographer | magazine writer | makeshift | man of letters | manes | Masan | materialization | metaphor | metonymy | monographer | monster | multiple image | music critic | newspaperman | next best thing | nightmare | noise | novelettist | novelist | novelize | ogre | ogress | oni | pamphleteer | penwoman | personnel | phantasm | phantasma | phantom | phony | picture | picture noise | picture shifts | pinch hitter | pinch-hit | plow the deep | poet | poltergeist | prepare | presence | produce | prose writer | proxy | rain | relief | relieve | replace | replacement | represent | representative | reserves | revenant | reviewer | ride | ride the sea | ringer | rolling | run | sail | scanning pattern | scarebabe | scarecrow | scarer | scenario writer | scenarist | scenarize | scintilla | scintillation | scribe | scriptwriter | scud | second string | secondary | shade | shading | shadow | shape | shoot | short-story writer | shrouded spirit | sign | skim | slip | snow | snowstorm | spares | specter | spectral ghost | spell | spell off | spirit | spook | sprite | stand in for | stand-in | storyteller | sub | subrogate | substituent | substitute | substitute for | substitution | succedaneum | succeed | succubus | suggestion | supersede | superseder | supplant | supplanter | surrogate | swap places with | symbol | synecdoche | technical writer | terror | theophany | third string | throw on paper | token | trace | understudy | understudy for | unsubstantiality | utility player | vampire | vicar | vice-president | vice-regent | vision | walk the waters | walking dead man | wandering soul | werewolf | Wolf-man | word painter | wordsmith | wraith | write | writer | zombie See Also | apparition | author | author | go | locomote | move | phantom | poltergeist | preoccupy | proffer | proposition | psyche | shadow | soul | suggestion | travel | writer Ghost In Webster's Dictionary \Ghost\, n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g[=a]st
breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g?st spirit, soul, D.
geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]
1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
--Spenser.
2. 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. --Shak.
I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a
blessed ghost. --Coleridge.
3. 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.
4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses.
{Ghost moth} (Zo["o]l.), a large European moth {(Hepialus
humuli)}; so called from the white color of the male, and
the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also {great
swift}.
{Holy Ghost}, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter;
(Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.
{To} {give up or yield up} {the ghost}, to die; to expire.
And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer.
Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered
unto his people. --Gen. xlix.
33.
\Ghost\, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. \Ghost\, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] --Shak. |
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