ghost
Forms
- Plural
- ghosts
- present (v1)
- ghost
- past (v2)
- ghosted
- past participle (v3)
- ghosted
- present participle
- ghosting
- 3rd person singular
- ghosts
Definitions
1.A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.
- Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani, a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
2.Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
3.A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
- There was less flicker, jitter was nonexistent, and the screen pattern had been rendered far more viewworthy, with ghosts being virtually suppressed.
4.A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- Regardless of GRM used, graffiti ghosts persist. Protect cladding with surface coating or replace with graffiti resistant paint or laminate.
1.Of a disembodied soul: to appear (somewhere or to someone) in the form of an apparition; to haunt.
2.To continuously cause (someone or something) trouble; specifically, to continuously be in the thoughts of (someone) in a disturbing manner; to perturb, to trouble.
3.To imbue (something) with a ghost-like effect or hue.
- It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
1.In the form be ghost: not present or involved; absent, gone.(slang)
- Thug held up a middle finger. "A'ight y'all. I'm ghost."
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2796
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).