Definitions for ghost

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Spelling: [gohst]

IPA: /goʊst/

Ghost is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in ghost (ghost).

Definitions for ghost

noun

1. 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.
2. a mere shadow or semblance; a trace:
3. a remote possibility:
4. (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being.
5. the principle of life; soul; spirit.
6. Informal. ghost writer.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
11. Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
12. a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
13. a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes:

Idioms

1. give up the ghost, to die. to cease to function or exist.

adjective

1. fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud:

verb (used with object)

1. to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
2. to haunt.
3. Engraving. to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.
4. Informal. to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:
5. 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.

verb (used without object)

1. to ghostwrite.
2. to go about or move like a ghost.
3. (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.
4. to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
5. Informal. to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:
6. 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.

Origin of ghost

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

Examples for ghost

The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.

First, the ghost of his departed partner, Jacob Marley, comes calling, his face emerging from the doorknob.

Now, she says, her coworkers are actively pranking each other and blaming it on the ghost.

"Mr. Bines has seen a ghost," said the sharp-eyed Mrs. Drelmer.

She looked as if she had seen a ghost—closed her eyes, even reeled.

As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town.

The ghost writer in question is assumed to be one Siobhan Curham—an established author of both YA and adult fiction.

"It is a blessing," said Renmark, with the ghost of a smile about his lips.

Girls, do you remember the dinner we gave here after the ghost party?

A ghost of color was going up her throat, staining her cheeks.