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ghost
[ gohst ]
noun
- the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,
- a mere shadow or semblance; a trace:
He's a ghost of his former self.
- a remote possibility:
He hasn't a ghost of a chance.
- (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being.
- Informal. ghostwriter.
- a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
- Also called ghost im·age [gohst, im-ij]. Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
- an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
- Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
- Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
- a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
- a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes:
Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts.
verb (used with object)
- to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
- to haunt.
- Engraving. to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.
- Informal.
- to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:
The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me.
- to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:
My friend ghosted my birthday party.
- Digital Technology. to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
verb (used without object)
- to ghostwrite.
- to go about or move like a ghost.
- (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.
- to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
- Informal.
- to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:
They dated for a month and then she ghosted.
- to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:
I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.
- Digital Technology. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
adjective
- fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud:
We were making contributions to a ghost company.
ghost
/ ɡəʊ²õ³Ù /
noun
- the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom spectral
- a haunting memory
the ghost of his former life rose up before him
- a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer
a ghost of a smile
- the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost )
- physics
- a faint secondary image produced by an optical system
- a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver
- See ghost word
- Also calledghost edition an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists
- Another name for ghostwriter See ghostwrite
- modifier falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained
a ghost worker
- give up the ghost
- to die
- (of a machine) to stop working
verb
- See ghostwrite
- tr to haunt
- intr to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed
he ghosted into the penalty area
Derived Forms
- ˈ²µ³ó´Ç²õ³ÙËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ³ó´Ç²õ³Ù·¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
- ²µ³ó´Ç²õ³Ù·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
- »å±ð·²µ³ó´Ç²õ³Ù verb (used with object)
- un·²µ³ó´Ç²õ³Ù·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ghost1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ghost1
Idioms and Phrases
- give up the ghost,
- to die.
- to cease to function or exist.
More idioms and phrases containing ghost
In addition to the idiom beginning with ghost , also see Chinaman's (ghost of a) chance ; give up the ghost .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Likewise, I never heard from dozens of other men whose profiles appealed to me online, but either they proved to be the Grim Reaper or ghosted me when we were to meet.
It reawakened the ghosts of the country's violent, dictatorial past, showing people that martial law was not, as most had assumed, consigned to history.
They tried a ghost of it, but also tanked so much legislation in the name of bipartisanship, which is all fine and dandy if you agree on basic human rights.
According to the colourful lyrics, Molly died of a fever but then returned as a ghost, still wheeling her wheelbarrow through the city's streets.
Lezhneva’s enthralling Pleasure acted as a kind of ghost, a haunted wanderer seeking her own validation rather than victims.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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