A ghost is the spirit of a person who's died. In most stories and myths, ghosts are pale, translucent, and wispy.
The spirit; the soul of man.
Noun
a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
Noun
a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
Noun
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
Noun
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Verb
write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
Verb
haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
Verb
move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
n.
The spirit; the soul of man.
n.
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased
person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
n.
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a
phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an
idea.
n.
A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses.
v. i.
To die; to expire.
v. t.
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Ghost
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.2.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.
I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.3.
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.4.
And he gave up the ghost full softly.
Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Ghost
Ghost
The spirit; the soul of man.
To die; to expire.
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Usage Examples
When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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Other Usage ExamplesRomance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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