GHOST | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of ghost in English ghostnoun uk /ɡəʊst/ us /ɡoʊst/

ghost noun (SPIRIT)

Add to word list Add to word list B1 [ C ] the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that person that some people believe appears to people who are alive: ghost story see a ghost Do you believe in ghosts?believe in ghosts Do you believe in ghosts?a ghost haunts something A ghost is said to haunt the old house.haunted by a ghost The gardens are said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who drowned in the river.

• A headless ghost walks the castle at night - or so the story goes.
• According to tradition, a headless ghost walks through the corridors of the house at night.
• The Society for Psychical Research is investigating reports of a ghost at the old vicarage.
• Have you ever seen a ghost?
• There's no such thing as ghosts.

Souls, spirits & ghosts

• apparition
• astral plane
• astral projection
• aura
• chi
• ectoplasm
• ghostly
• incorporeal
• incubus
• necromancer
• necromancy
• Ouija board
• soul
• spectral
• spectrally
• spectre
• spirit
• séance
• wraith
• zombie

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ghost noun (MEMORY)

[ S ] literary a memory, usually of something or someone bad: ghost of The ghost of the old dictator still lingers on. Memory and memories

• abiding memory
• associative memory
• at/in the back of your mind idiom
• clear memory
• confabulation
• dim
• déjà vu
• haunting
• hauntingly
• have a memory like an elephant idiom
• implicit memory
• in living memory idiom
• nostalgic
• nostalgically
• off the top of your head idiom
• photographic memory
• recall test
• remembrance
• rote
• working memory

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Idioms

give up the ghost look like/as though you've seen a ghost not have a/the ghost of a chance ghostverb uk /ɡəʊst/ us /ɡoʊst/

ghost verb (WRITE)

[ T ] (also ghostwrite) to write a book, article, etc. for another person to publish under their own name: A writer friend of his was ghosting the autobiography of a jockey. Most of Reagan's newspaper columns were ghosted for him.

• Around 80 percent of celebrity books are ghosted.
• Tony is ghosting the memoirs of Eddie, an ex-con who went to prison for his part in a bullion robbery.
• He is a freelance writer who is ghosting an article for a corporate executive.

Writing & typing

• agraphia
• asemic
• bang
• bang something out phrasal verb
• bash something out phrasal verb
• blank
• borrow
• contribute
• draw
• enter
• graphology
• keyboarder
• longhand
• misspell
• overdocument
• overplotted
• punch in phrasal verb
• purple prose
• put something/someone down phrasal verb
• writer

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ghost verb (END COMMUNICATION)

[ I or T ] informal to end a relationship with someone suddenly by stopping all communication with them: Should I message her back or just ghost? I couldn't understand why I'd been ghosted.

• She was furious about being ghosted by Dan.
• If you want to finish with a boyfriend, tell him, don't just ghost.
• He ghosted his girlfriend and then she became his boss.

Relationships: ending & divorce

• a parting of the ways idiom
• affiliation order
• annul
• annulment
• break something up phrasal verb
• break up with someone
• bust
• chuck
• cord
• dump
• get the push idiom
• ghosting
• give someone the elbow idiom
• give someone the heave-ho idiom
• give someone the push idiom
• post-divorce
• rebound
• run out on someone/something phrasal verb
• separate
• throw

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Neglecting and ignoring

ghost verb (MOVE)

[ I ] to move somewhere smoothly, quickly and quietly: They slid through the big gate and ghosted across the park. The big striker ghosted to the back post and scored.

• Sarah suddenly ghosted out from behind the shed.
• Three youths ghosted out from a narrow alleyway a short distance ahead of her.
• Several black shapes were ghosting swiftly over the grass.

Advancing and moving forward

• ballistically
• beeline
• bull
• come over phrasal verb
• cruise
• follow a path
• forward
• gain
• glide
• lead
• lunge
• make for somewhere/something phrasal verb
• make towards something/someone phrasal verb
• proceed
• progress
• roll
• run
• stream
• surge
• troop

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ghost | American Dictionary

ghostnoun [ C ] us /ɡoʊst/ Add to word list Add to word list the spirit of a dead person imagined as visiting the living and usually appearing as a pale, almost transparent form: There are lots of stories about ghosts. (Definition of ghost from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of ghost?

Translations of ghost

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• give up the ghost idiom
• lay the ghost of something (to rest) idiom
• not have a/the ghost of a chance idiom
• look like/as though you've seen a ghost idiom

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  • Noun 
    • ghost (SPIRIT)
    • ghost (MEMORY)
  • Verb 
    • ghost (WRITE)
    • ghost (END COMMUNICATION)
    • ghost (MOVE)
• American   Noun

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