ghost (g st)n. 1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats. 2. The center of spiritual life; the soul. 3. A demon or spirit. 4. A returning or haunting memory or image. 5. a. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile. b. The tiniest bit: not a ghost of a chance. 6. A faint, false image, as: a. A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves. b. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera. c. A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating. d. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass. 7. Informal A ghostwriter. 8. a. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies. b. A fictitious employee or business. 9. Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin. v. ghost·ed, ghost·ing, ghosts v.intr. 1. Informal To engage in ghostwriting. 2. To move noiselessly like a ghost: "Two young deer ghosted out of the woods" (Nancy M. Debevoise). v.tr. 1. To haunt. 2. Informal To ghostwrite: was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive. [Middle English gost, from Old English g  st, breath, spirit.]ghost  y adj. |
Ghosts
See also demons; spirits and spiritualism.
a supposedly ghostly counterpart or double of a living person.
a belief in ghosts.
a phantom or apparition.
a vision or other perception of something that has no physical or objective reality, especially in the sense of a ghost or other supernatural apparition. Also phantasma. See also images; philosophy.
spectrology.
an abnormal fear of ghosts.
fortunetelling through communication with the spirits of the dead. — sciomantic, adj.
a religion in which ghosts are worshiped instead of gods.
the study of ghosts, phantoms, or apparitions. Also called phantasmology, spookology. — spectrological, adj.
an abnormal fear of specters or phantoms.
spectrology.
1. the condition or quality of existing outside the known experience of man or caused by forces beyond those of nature.
2. belief in supernatural events or forces. Also supranaturalism. — supernaturalist, n., adj. — supernatural, supernaturalistic, adj.
2. belief in supernatural events or forces. Also supranaturalism. — supernaturalist, n., adj. — supernatural, supernaturalistic, adj.
supernaturalism. — supranaturalist, n., adj. — supranatural, supranaturalistic, adj.
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