ghostlike

Variant of ghost

ghost definition

ghost (gōst)

noun

  1. the spirit or soul: now only in give up the ghost (to die) and in Holy Ghost
  2. Folklore a dead person's disembodied spirit, esp. when thought of as appearing to the living as a pale, shadowy apparition
  3. a haunting memory
    1. a faint, shadowy semblance; inkling
    2. a slight trace not a ghost of a chance
  5. ☆ Informal ghostwriter
  6. Optics, TV an unwanted secondary image

Etymology: altered (prob. after Fl gheest) < ME goste < OE gast, soul, spirit, demon, akin to Ger geist < IE base *gheizd-, to be excited, frightened > Sans hēḋ-, to be angry

intransitive verb

☆ to work as a ghostwriter

transitive verb

  1. to haunt
  2. ☆ to be the ghostwriter of

Related Forms:

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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