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Spelling: [gohsts]

IPA: /goʊsts/

Ghosts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in Ghosts (ghosst).

Definitions for Ghosts

noun

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:
4. a remote possibility:
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:

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 Ghosts

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

Examples for Ghosts

There are Ghosts whom I tremble to meet, and cannot think of without a shudder.

By 2010, Hunter was directing a well received revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at Access Theatre on Broadway.

In order to get the Ghosts to glow, we had to do what was called a double burn.

Sitting lonely in the Dme, I seem to see their Ghosts in the corner.

For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of Ghosts.

There are Ghosts that may flutter above the stage at the Met.

He'd be dead of fright before morning, he's so mortally afraid of Ghosts.

It was a mountain of Ghosts as Olympus was a mountain of gods.

The "Ghosts of prayer plumes," which Moke-icha saw in the sky, is the Milky Way.

Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where Ghosts are buried.