ghost
noun
[ ɡəʊst ]
• an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image.
• "the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk"
Similar:
spectre,
phantom,
wraith,
spirit,
soul,
shadow,
presence,
vision,
apparition,
hallucination,
bodach,
Doppelgänger,
duppy,
spook,
phantasm,
shade,
revenant,
visitant,
wight,
eidolon,
manes,
lemures,
ghost
verb
• act as ghostwriter of (a work).
• "his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist"
• glide smoothly and effortlessly.
• "they ghosted up the river"
• end a personal relationship with (someone) by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.
• "I didn't want to ghost her, so we ended up having ‘the talk’ and it was horrible"
Origin:
Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist . The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest .
