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Ghosts

/ɡəʊsts/

The spirit; the soul of man.

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📖 Definitions of "Ghosts"

noun

1
The spirit; the soul of man.
2
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death
"Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt."
3
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image
"not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea"
4
A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

verb

1
To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
2
To die; to expire.
3
To ghostwrite.
4
To sail seemingly without wind.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ghosts"

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Word	Definition
wraithnoun	A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
specternoun	A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]
spectrenoun	British standard spelling of specter.
spooknoun	(informal) A scare or fright.
hauntnoun	A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
obsessverb	(transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
ghostwriteverb	(authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
touchnoun	An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
ghostwriternoun	A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.
shadenoun	(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
tracenoun	An act of tracing.
afghans	the citizens and nationals of Afghanistan, as well as their descendants in the Afghan diaspora.
chimerasnoun	(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
demons	(pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ; sometimes also called The Possessed or The Devils) a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–72.
devilsnoun	(theology) The chief devil; Satan.
fantasiesnoun	(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
halloweennoun	The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.
minds	an open-source and distributed social network.
phantomnoun	A ghost or apparition.
phantomsnoun	A ghost or apparition.