ghost
noun
1. a mental representation of some haunting experience
- he looked like he had seen a ghost
Similar word(s): shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith
Definition categories: thought, apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
2. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Similar word(s): ghostwriter
Definition categories: person, author, writer
3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
Definition categories: person, psyche, soul
4. a suggestion of some quality
- he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
Definition categories: communication, proffer, proposition, suggestion
Sentences with ghost as a noun:
- Everyone showed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.
- not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea
- ghost slug; ghostberry; ghostflower; ghost crab; ghost bat
- ghost ant; ghost catfish; ghost nipper; ghost nudibranch
- ghost town; ghost net; ghost ramp; ghost ship
- ghost cell; ghost crater; ghost image
- ghost pain; ghost cellphone vibration; ghost island; ghost voter
- ghost rocket; ghost deer; ghost cat
- ghost writer; ghost band; ghost singer
verb
1. move like a ghost
- The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
Definition categories: motion, go, locomote, move, travel
2. haunt like a ghost; pursue
Similar word(s): haunt, obsess
Definition categories: emotion, preoccupy
3. write for someone else
- How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
Similar word(s): ghostwrite