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Ghost   /goʊst/   Listen
Ghost

noun
1.
A mental representation of some haunting experience.  Synonyms: shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith.  "It aroused specters from his past"
2.
A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.  Synonym: ghostwriter.
3.
The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.
4.
A suggestion of some quality.  Synonyms: touch, trace.  "He detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
verb
1.
Move like a ghost.
2.
Haunt like a ghost; pursue.  Synonyms: haunt, obsess.
3.
Write for someone else.  Synonym: ghostwrite.



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"Ghost" Quotes from Famous Books



... the matter? Oh, I thought you were a ghost!" She clutched at June with both hands. "Oh, is anything ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... execution—a circumstance which produced a general laugh in the crowd—a smile was observed upon Balthazar's face in sympathy with the general hilarity. His lips were seen to move up to the moment when his heart was thrown in his face—"Then," said a looker-on, "he gave up the ghost." ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... low voice that once upon a time, on a dark wintry night, when the wind was unruly, howling and whistling, banging about doors and windows, and twirling weathercocks, so that the living were frightened out of their beds, and even the dead could not sleep quietly in their graves, the ghost of honest Preston was attracted by the well-known call of "waiter," and made its sudden appearance just as the parish clerk was singing a stave from the "mirrie ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... the Wind to the Moon, "I will blow you out. You stare in the air Like a ghost in a chair, Always looking what I am about, I hate to be watched; I'll ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools
... week days the shutters of this grim apartment were kept closed, and an inquisitive eye, applied to the keyhole, could just faintly discern the portrait in crayon of the late Mr. Handsomebody, presiding, like some whiskered ghost, over the revels of the stuffed birds in the ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche


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