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[1] a play (1881) by Henrik Ibsen.
[2] the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
[3] a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self.
[4] a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
[5] (sometimes initial capital letter ) a spiritual being.
[6] the principle of life; soul; spirit.
[7] Informal . ghost writer.
[8] a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
[9] Also called ghost image. Photography . a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
[10] an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
[11] Optics . a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
[12] Metalworking . a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
[13] a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
[14] a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes: Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts.
[15] to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
[16] to haunt.
[17] Engraving . to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.
[18] Informal . to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me. to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:My friend ghosted my birthday party.
[19] Digital Technology . to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
[20] to ghostwrite.
[21] to go about or move like a ghost.
[22] (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.
[23] to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
[24] Informal . to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:They dated for a month and then she ghosted. to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.
[25] Digital Technology . to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
[26] fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud: We were making contributions to a ghost company.
[27] the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom Related adjective: spectral
[28] a haunting memory the ghost of his former life rose up before him
[29] a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer a ghost of a smile
[30] the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost )
[31] physics a faint secondary image produced by an optical system a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver
[32] See ghost word
[33] Also called: ghost edition an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists
[34] Another name for ghostwriter See ghostwrite
[35] (modifier) falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained a ghost worker
[36] give up the ghost to die (of a machine) to stop working
[37] See ghostwrite
[38] (tr) to haunt
[39] (intr) to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed he ghosted into the penalty area

Words related to Ghosts

phantom, devil, demon, soul, shadow, specter, vision, vampire, apparition, revenant, appearance, haunt, visitor, shade, spook, poltergeist, phantasm, wraith, daemon, manes

Origin of Ghosts

before 900; Middle English goost (noun), Old English gāst; cognate with German Geist spirit

Other words from Ghosts

ghost·i·ly , adverb
ghost·like , adjective
de·ghost , verb (used with object)
un·ghost·like , adjective

Word origin for Ghosts

Old English gāst; related to Old Frisian jēst, Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit hēda fury, anger

Synonyms for Ghosts

demon, devil, phantom, shadow, soul, specter, vampire, vision, apparition, appearance, banshee, daemon, haunt, kelpie, manes, phantasm, poltergeist, revenant, shade, spook, visitor, wraith, zombie, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being