Ghost
[gəʊst] or [ɡost]
Definition
(noun.) a mental representation of some haunting experience; 'he looked like he had seen a ghost'; 'it aroused specters from his past'.
(noun.) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person.
(verb.) write for someone else; 'How many books have you ghostwritten so far?'.
(verb.) move like a ghost; 'The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard'.
Edited by Hilda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The spirit; the soul of man.
(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
(v. i.) To die; to expire.
(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Spirit, soul.[2]. Apparition, spectre, sprite, phantom, shade, GOBLIN, hobgoblin.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spectre, apparition, spirit, vision, shade, phantom
ANT:Body, animal, organism
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Definition
n. the soul of man: a spirit appearing after death: (Shak.) a dead body: (slang) one who writes a statesman's speeches for him &c.—v.i. to appear to.—adj. Ghost′-like.—n. Ghost′liness.—adj. Ghost′ly spiritual religious: pertaining to apparitions.—ns. Ghost′-moth a species of moth very common in Britain its caterpillar destructive to hop-gardens; Ghost′-stō′ry a story in which ghosts figure; Ghost′-word a fictitious word that has originated in the blunder of a scribe or printer—common in dictionaries.—Give up the ghost (B.) to die.—Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit the third person in the Trinity.
Checker: Susie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the ghost of either one of your parents, denotes that you are exposed to danger, and you should be careful in forming partnerships with strangers. To see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long journey with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments. For a ghost to speak to you, you will be decoyed into the hands of enemies. For a woman, this is a prognostication of widowhood and deception. To see an angel or a ghost appear in the sky, denotes the loss of kindred and misfortunes. To see a female ghost on your right in the sky and a male on your left, both of pleasing countenance, signifies a quick rise from obscurity to fame, but the honor and position will be filled only for a short space, as death will be a visitor and will bear you off. To see a female ghost in long, clinging robes floating calmly through the sky, indicates that you will make progression in scientific studies and acquire wealth almost miraculously, but there will be an under note of sadness in your life. To dream that you see the ghost of a living relative or friend, denotes that you are in danger of some friend's malice, and you are warned to carefully keep your affairs under personal supervision. If the ghost appears to be haggard, it may be the intimation of the early death of that friend. See Death, Dead.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
Editor: Sallust
Examples
- Have the ghost of one appeared to anybody, Master Fairway? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You come like a ghost,' exclaimed Loerke. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He made me a prettily-turnedneatly-worded apology, about the ghost-visits, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is in the foregoing manner that the remarkable stereoscopic effect of Sir David Brewster's ghost is produced, a representation of which is given in the next page. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Those eyes had looked on the visits of a certain ghost--had long waited the comings and goings of that strangest spectre, Hypochondria. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This illusion, which created so much sensation in London and first known here as Pepper’s Ghost, I will endeavor to explain, and make the working of it as clear as I possibly can to the reader. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It will be his Ghost--not him! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- All these four Anges were grim and grey as burglars, and cold and vapid as ghosts. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You are afraid of ghosts? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Bedroom fires blaze brightly all over the house, raising ghosts of grim furniture on wall and ceiling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. Plato. The Republic.
- The place seemed alive with ghosts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As if,' said Eugene, 'as if the churchyard ghosts were rising. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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