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ghost
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- pronunciation:
- gost
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb & intransitive verb
- phrases:
- give up the ghost
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the spirit of someone who has died, esp. one that is believed to have returned to earth to haunt a place or living people.
- synonyms:
- apparition, phantom, shade, specter, spirit, spook, wraith
- similar words:
- doppelgänger, manifestation, soul
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| definition 2: |
anything that recurs persistently or haunts, such as an idea, thought, or recollection.
- synonyms:
- obsession, phantom
- similar words:
- delusion, fixation, illusion
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| definition 3: |
a mere possibility or trace.
the ghost of an idea- synonyms:
- semblance, shade, shadow, suggestion, trace
- similar words:
- hint, possibility
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| definition 4: |
a false, shadowy, unwanted image, as on film or a television screen.
- similar words:
- image, picture, shadow
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| definition 5: |
(sometimes cap.) a supernatural entity.
the Holy Ghost- similar words:
- spirit
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| related words: |
apparition, hallucination, nonentity, presence |
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| phrase: |
give up the ghost |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb & intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
ghosts, ghosting, ghosted |
| definition 1: |
to write (a book such as an autobiography) under the name of and as the agent for another person; ghostwrite.
- synonyms:
- ghostwrite
- similar words:
- write
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| definition 2: |
of a ghost, to appear persistently in (a place) or to (a person); haunt.
- synonyms:
- haunt
- similar words:
- shadow
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| derivation: |
ghostlike (adj.) |
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