The Wordsmith Dictionary

ghost bust er |ˈgōstˌbəstər ˈɡoʊstbəstər | informal ▶noun 1 a person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists. • a parapsychologist. 2 an investigator of tax fraud.

ghost crab

ghost crab ▶noun a pale yellowish crab that lives in a burrow in the sand above the high-water mark and goes down to the sea at night to feed. [Genus Ocypode, family Ocypodidae. ]

Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance an American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance that, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life. Advocated by the Sioux chief Sitting Bull, the cult was central to the uprising that was crushed at the Battle of Wounded Knee.

ghosting

ghost ing |ˈgōstiNG ɡoʊstɪŋ | ▶noun the appearance of a ghost or secondary image on a television or other display screen.

ghostly

ghost ly |ˈgōstlē ˈɡoʊs (t )li | ▶adjective ( ghostlier, ghostliest ) of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural: a ghostly figure with a hood. DERIVATIVES ghost li ness noun ORIGIN Old English gāstlic, from gāst ‘ghost. ’

ghost moth

ghost moth (also ghost swift ) ▶noun a medium to large swift moth, the male of which has white wings. [Family Hepialidae. See swift ( sense 2 of the noun ). ]

ghost story

ghost sto ry |ˈɡoʊs (t ) ˌstɔri | ▶noun a story involving ghosts or ghostly circumstances, intended to be suspenseful and scary.

ghost town

ghost town |ˈɡoʊs (t ) ˌtaʊn | ▶noun a deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants.

ghost train

ghost train ▶noun Brit. a miniature train at a funfair designed to scare its passengers with eerie sights and sounds.

ghost word

ghost word ▶noun a word that is not actually used but is recorded in a dictionary or other reference work.

ghostwriter

ghost writ er |ˈgōstˌrītər ˈɡoʊstˌraɪdər | ▶noun a person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author. DERIVATIVES ghost write verb

Oxford Dictionary

ghost

ghost |gəʊst | ▶noun 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 | [ as modifier ] : a ghost ship. • a slight trace or vestige of something: she gave the ghost of a smile. • a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or on a cathode ray screen, e.g. by faulty television reception or internal reflection in a mirror or camera. ▶verb 1 [ with obj. ] act as ghostwriter of (a work ): his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist. 2 [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] glide smoothly and effortlessly: they ghosted up the river. PHRASES the ghost in the machine Philosophy the mind viewed as distinct from the body (usually used in a derogatory fashion by critics of dualism ). [coined by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle (1949 ).] give up the ghost die. • (of a machine ) stop working. look as if one has seen a ghost look very pale and shocked. not stand the ghost of a chance have no chance at all. DERIVATIVES ghostlike adjective ORIGIN Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul ’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest.

ghost bat

ghost bat ▶noun any of a number of bats with mainly white or grey fur, in particular: • see white bat. • Austral. another term for false vampire.

ghostbuster

ghost |bust ¦er |ˈgəʊs (t )bʌstə | ▶noun informal 1 a person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists. 2 an official whose job is to investigate tax fraud.

ghost crab

ghost crab ▶noun a pale yellowish crab that lives in a burrow in the sand above the high-water mark and goes down to the sea at night to feed. ●Genus Ocypode, family Ocypodidae.

Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance ▶noun an American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance, which, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life.

ghosting

ghost |ing |ˈgəʊstɪŋ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the appearance of a ghost or secondary image on a television or other display screen.

ghostly

ghost ¦ly |ˈgəʊs (t )li | ▶adjective ( ghostlier, ghostliest ) of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural: a frightening, ghostly figure with a hood. DERIVATIVES ghostliness noun ORIGIN Old English gāstlic, from gāst ‘ghost ’.

ghost moth

ghost moth (also ghost swift ) ▶noun a large European swift moth, the male of which has white wings. ●Hepialus humuli, family Hepialidae. See swift ( sense 2 of the noun ).

ghost story

ghost story ▶noun a story about ghosts, intended to be frightening.

ghost town

ghost town ▶noun a deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants.

ghost train

ghost train ▶noun Brit. a miniature train at a funfair designed to scare its passengers with eerie sights and sounds.

ghost word

ghost word ▶noun a word recorded in a dictionary or other reference work which is not actually used.

ghostwriter

ghost |writer |ˈɡəʊstrʌɪtə (r )| ▶noun a person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author. DERIVATIVES ghostwrite verb

American Oxford Thesaurus

ghost

ghost noun 1 his ghost haunts the crypt: specter, phantom, wraith, spirit, presence; apparition; informal spook. 2 the ghost of a smile: trace, hint, suggestion, impression, suspicion, tinge; glimmer, semblance, shadow, whisper. WORD NOTE See spirit Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

ghostly

ghostly adjective a ghostly vision at the end of the hallway: spectral, ghostlike, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic; unearthly, unnatural, supernatural; insubstantial, shadowy; eerie, weird, uncanny; frightening, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, bone-chilling, terrifying, chilling, sinister; informal creepy, scary, spooky.

Oxford Thesaurus

ghost

ghost noun 1 it is said that his ghost still haunts the crypt: spectre, phantom, wraith, spirit, soul, shadow, presence; vision, apparition, hallucination; Scottish & Irish bodach; German Doppelgänger; W. Indian duppy; informal spook; literary phantasm, shade, revenant, visitant, wight; rare eidolon, manes, lemures. 2 she gave the ghost of a smile: trace, hint, suggestion, impression, faint appearance, touch, suspicion, tinge, modicum, dash, soupçon; glimmer, semblance, shadow, breath, whiff, undertone, whisper. WORD LINKS ghost phasmophobia fear of ghosts Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

ghostly

ghostly adjective a ghostly figure appeared at the end of the tunnel: ghostlike, spectral, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic, unearthly, unnatural, supernatural, other-worldly, insubstantial, illusory, unreal, shadowy, eerie, weird, uncanny, mysterious, magical, mystic, strange, abnormal, freakish; frightening, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, scaring, terrifying, petrifying, chilling, sinister; Scottish eldritch; informal creepy, scary, spooky, freaky; Brit. informal rum.

Duden Dictionary

Ghosttown

Ghost town Substantiv, feminin , die |ˈgoʊsttaʊn |die Ghosttown; Genitiv: der Ghosttown, Plural: die Ghosttowns englisch ghost town Geisterstadt

Ghostword

Ghost word Substantiv, Neutrum , das |ˈgoʊstwəːd |das Ghostword; Genitiv: des Ghostwords, Plural: die Ghostwords englisch ; »Geisterwort «Wort, das seine Entstehung einem Schreib-, Druck- oder Aussprachefehler verdankt

Ghostwriter

Ghost wri ter Substantiv, maskulin bildungssprachlich , der |ˈgoʊstra͜itɐ |der Ghostwriter; Genitiv: des Ghostwriters, Plural: die Ghostwriter englisch ghost-writer, eigentlich = Geisterschreiber Autor, der für eine andere Person, meist eine bekannte Persönlichkeit, schreibt und nicht als Verfasser genannt wird

Ghostwriterin

Ghost wri te rin Substantiv, feminin , die weibliche Form zu Ghostwriter

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ghost

ghost /ɡoʊst / (! -o-は /oʊ /) 〖原義は「霊魂」〗名詞複～s /-ts /C 1 幽霊 , 亡霊 ▸ Do you believe in ghosts? あなたは幽霊の存在を信じますか ▸ a ghost hunter 幽霊を退治する人 ▸ raise [lay ] a ghost 幽霊を呼び出す [退散させる ]▸ look like a ghost (幽霊のように )やせて青ざめている 2 〖the ～〗【良くないことの】幻影 , 影 (のようなもの ) «of » ; 〖a /the ～ of a A 〗かすかな [ごくわずかの ]A (!Aは C 名詞単数形 ) ▸ the ghost of militarism 軍国主義の幻影 ▸ put on a ghost of a smile かすかな微笑を見せる ▸ I don't stand [have ] a ghost of a chance .見込みはまったくない .3 ＝ghostwriter .4 〘光学テレビ〙ゴースト〘重なった二重像のうち弱い方〙.5 〖G- 〗魂, 霊 ▸ the Holy Ghost 聖霊 give ù p the gh ó st 1 ｟おどけて｠〈機械が〉 (修理できないほど )壊れる ; ｟くだけて｠あきらめる .2 ｟やや古｠死ぬ .動詞他動詞自動詞 1 (〈本〉を )代作する (ghostwrite ).2 (〈場所〉を )幽霊のように歩き回る .～́ st ò ry 怪談 .～́ t ò wn ゴーストタウン .～́ tr à in ｟英｠(遊園地の )お化け列車 .

ghostlike

gh ó st l ì ke 形容詞幽霊のような ; 気味の悪い .

ghostly

gh ó st ly 形容詞 1 幽霊の (ような ), 薄ぼんやりした .2 ｟古｠霊的な, 宗教的な ; 精神的な .gh ó st li ness 名詞

ghostwrite

gh ó st wr ì te 動詞 →write 他動詞自動詞 (…を )代作する .

ghostwriter

gh ó st wr ì ter 名詞 C 代作者, ゴーストライター .