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- Dictionaryghost/ɡəʊst/
noun
- 1. an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image: "the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk" Similar
verb
- 1. act as ghostwriter of (a work): "his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist"
- 2. glide smoothly and effortlessly: "they ghosted up the river"
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The meaning of GHOST is the seat of life or intelligence : soul. How to use ghost in a sentence.
GHOST definition: 1. the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that…. Learn more.
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
1. the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom. 2. a haunting memory: the ghost of his former life rose up before him. 3. a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer: a ghost of a smile.
A ghost is the spirit of a person who's died. In most stories and myths, ghosts are pale, translucent, and wispy. Throughout history, the idea that a person's soul or spirit can remain visible after her death has been common.
noun. /ɡəʊst/ Idioms. [countable] the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear. Do you believe in ghosts (= believe that they exist)? ghost of somebody The ghost of her father had come back to haunt her. He looked as if he had seen a ghost (= looked very frightened) The ghost hunters have so far found nothing.
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.
