ghost
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From Middle English gost and gast, from Old English gāst. Cognate with Afrikaans gees, archaic Danish gejst, Dutch geest, Frisian geast, German Geist, Scots ghaist and Yiddish גײַסט (gayst).
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ghost (plural ghosts)
- (obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.
- Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. — Spenser
- The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
- The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose. — Shakespeare.
- I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost. — Coleridge
- Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
- not a ghost of a chance
- the ghost of an idea
- Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. — Poe
- A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
- A ghostwriter.
- (paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.
- Before all else, we speak to the land to the ghosts and spirits of this place known to many as pixies, fairies, brownies, or elfs. (Math Jones)
- (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
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- (soul): soul, spirit
- (spirit appearing after death): apparition, phantom, revenant, specter/spectre, spook, wraith.
- (faint shadowy semblance): glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, hint, inkling, spark, suggestion.
- (false image in an optical device):
- (false image on a television screen):
- (ghostwriter): ghostwriter
- See also Wikisaurus:ghost
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[edit] Translations
soul — see soul
spirit appearing after death
faint shadowy semblance
false image in an optical device
false image on a television screen
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ghostwriter — see ghostwriter
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to ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)
- (transitive) To haunt.
- (transitive) To ghostwrite.
- (intransitive) To ghostwrite.
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