Noun

ghost (plural: ghosts )

1. (Obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.

   Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.

   Spenser.

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

   The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shakespeare.

   
   

   I thought that I had died in sleep,

   And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

   Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

4. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
5. a ghostwriter.

Related terms

• ghostly
• Holy Ghost

Translations

• Chemehuevi : ɨ'nɨp (i) (2)

  kummitus , henki

• German: Geist m (1, 2)
• Hungarian: kísértet (2), szellem
• Italian: fantasma m (2)
• Maricopa: ʼish nyoym (2)
• O'odham: cukut (2)
• Slovene: duh m (1, 2), senca f (3, means 'shadow')
• Spanish: fantasma m