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| ghost [ gōst ] |
noun (plural ghosts) |
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1. supposed spirit remaining after death: the supposed spirit of somebody who has died, believed to appear as a shadowy form or to cause sounds, the movement of objects, or a frightening atmosphere in a place
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2. trace: a faint, weak, or greatly reduced appearance, trace, or possibility of something
  the ghost of a smile
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3. secondary image: a faint duplicate image of something seen on a screen or photograph or through a telescope, and caused by the reception of a double signal or by a mechanical defect
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4. nonexistent person or thing: an entity that seems to exist but does not, e.g. a name entered on a list by mistake or a fictitious employee on a company payroll
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5. literature
Same as ghostwriter
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6. religion soul: somebody's soul or spirit
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archaic
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verb (past and past participle ghost·ed, present participle ghost·ing, 3rd person present singular ghosts) |
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1. transitive verb literature write something under another's name: to be the ghostwriter of a work
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2. glide: to glide silently like a ghost
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| [ Old English gāst< W Germanic] |
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| ghost·like adjective |
| ghost·y adjective |
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give up the ghost
1. to stop working or functioning for good (informal)
2. to die (literary)
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