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Definition of Ghost
1. Verb. Move like a ghost. "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
2. Noun. A mental representation of some haunting experience. "It aroused specters from his past"
Generic synonyms: Apparition, Fantasm, Phantasm, Phantasma, Phantom, Shadow
Derivative terms: Spook
3. Verb. Haunt like a ghost; pursue. "The good news will ghost her"; "Fear of illness haunts her"
4. Noun. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.
5. Verb. Write for someone else. "Did he ghost his major works over a short period of time?"; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
Category relationships: Authorship, Composition, Penning, Writing
Generic synonyms: Author
Derivative terms: Ghostwriter
6. Noun. The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.
7. Noun. A suggestion of some quality. "He detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
Definition of Ghost
1. n. The spirit; the soul of man.
2. v. i. To die; to expire.
3. v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Definition of Ghost
1. Noun. (obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man. ¹
2. Noun. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. ¹
3. Noun. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering. ¹
4. Noun. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. ¹
5. Noun. 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. ¹
6. Noun. A ghostwriter. ¹
7. Noun. (context: paganism) A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry. ¹
8. Noun. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server. ¹
9. Noun. (computing) an image of a file or hard disk. ¹
10. Noun. (theater) An understudy. ¹
11. Noun. (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent. ¹
12. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition. ¹
13. Verb. (ambitransitive) To ghostwrite. ¹
14. Verb. (computing) to copy a file or hard drive image. ¹
15. Verb. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ghost
1. to haunt [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: haunt
Medical Definition of Ghost
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1. The spirit; the soul of man. "Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament." (Spenser)
2. 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 Harrys rose." (Shak) "I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost." (Coleridge)
3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. "Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." (Poe)
4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.