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ghost
(gōst) n.1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.
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2. A person's spirit or soul: was sick for months and finally gave up the ghost.
4. a. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile.
5. A faint, unwanted image, as: a. An unwanted 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. An unwanted spectral line caused by imperfections in a diffraction grating.
d. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.
7. a. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.
8. Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
v.intr.2. To move noiselessly like a ghost: 'Two young deer ghosted out of the woods' (Nancy M. Debevoise).
3. Informal To cut off all communication with someone, especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation: ghosted on him after two dates.
v.tr.2. Informal To ghostwrite: was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive.
3. Informal To cut off all communication with (someone), especially a romantic or sexual partner, without providing an explanation: 'In some point in nearly every young millennial's life, they will be ghosted. And not by sad dead bodies from the graveyard, but by idiot living ones from the Internet' (Heather Dockray).
[Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, breath, spirit.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ghost
(ɡəʊst) n1. the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom.
2. a haunting memory: the ghost of his former life rose up before him.
3. a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer: a ghost of a smile.
4. the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost)
5. (General Physics) physicsa. a faint secondary image produced by an optical system
b. a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver
7. (Library Science & Bibliography) Also called: ghost edition an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists
8. (Journalism & Publishing) another name for ghostwriter
9. (modifier) falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained: a ghost worker.
10. give up the ghost b. (of a machine) to stop working
vb11. (Journalism & Publishing) another word for ghostwrite
13. (intr) to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed: he ghosted into the penalty area.
[Old English gāst; related to Old Frisian jēst, Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit hēda fury, anger]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ghost
(goʊst)n.
1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined as wandering, often in vague or evanescent form, among the living and sometimes haunting them; wraith.
2. a mere shadow or semblance; trace: She's a ghost of her former self.
3. a remote possibility: not a ghost of a chance.
5. ghostwriter.
6. a secondary, usu. faint or blurry image, as on a television screen or on a photographic negative or print.
v.t. 8. to haunt.
Idioms: give up the ghost, b. to cease to function or exist.
[before 900; Middle English goost, Old English gāst, c. Old Frisian gāst, Old Saxon gēst, Old High German geist spirit]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ghost
Past participle: ghosted
Gerund: ghosting
| Imperative |
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| ghost |
| ghost |
| Present |
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| I ghost |
| you ghost |
| he/she/it ghosts |
| we ghost |
| you ghost |
| they ghost |
| Preterite |
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| I ghosted |
| you ghosted |
| he/she/it ghosted |
| we ghosted |
| you ghosted |
| they ghosted |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am ghosting |
| you are ghosting |
| he/she/it is ghosting |
| we are ghosting |
| you are ghosting |
| they are ghosting |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have ghosted |
| you have ghosted |
| he/she/it has ghosted |
| we have ghosted |
| you have ghosted |
| they have ghosted |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was ghosting |
| you were ghosting |
| he/she/it was ghosting |
| we were ghosting |
| you were ghosting |
| they were ghosting |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had ghosted |
| you had ghosted |
| he/she/it had ghosted |
| we had ghosted |
| you had ghosted |
| they had ghosted |
| Future |
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| I will ghost |
| you will ghost |
| he/she/it will ghost |
| we will ghost |
| you will ghost |
| they will ghost |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have ghosted |
| you will have ghosted |
| he/she/it will have ghosted |
| we will have ghosted |
| you will have ghosted |
| they will have ghosted |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be ghosting |
| you will be ghosting |
| he/she/it will be ghosting |
| we will be ghosting |
| you will be ghosting |
| they will be ghosting |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been ghosting |
| you have been ghosting |
| he/she/it has been ghosting |
| we have been ghosting |
| you have been ghosting |
| they have been ghosting |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been ghosting |
| you will have been ghosting |
| he/she/it will have been ghosting |
| we will have been ghosting |
| you will have been ghosting |
| they will have been ghosting |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been ghosting |
| you had been ghosting |
| he/she/it had been ghosting |
| we had been ghosting |
| you had been ghosting |
| they had been ghosting |
| Conditional |
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| I would ghost |
| you would ghost |
| he/she/it would ghost |
| we would ghost |
| you would ghost |
| they would ghost |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have ghosted |
| you would have ghosted |
| he/she/it would have ghosted |
| we would have ghosted |
| you would have ghosted |
| they would have ghosted |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
| Noun | 1. | ghost - a mental representation of some haunting experience; 'he looked like he had seen a ghost'; 'it aroused specters from his past' specter, wraith, spectre, spook, shade fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; 'a ghostly apparition at midnight' |
| 2. | ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | |
| 3. | ghost - the visible disembodied soul of a dead person poltergeist - a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder soul, psyche - the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | |
| 4. | ghost - a suggestion of some quality; 'there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone'; 'he detected a ghost of a smile on her face' proffer, proposition, suggestion - a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; 'it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse' | |
| Verb | 1. | ghost - move like a ghost; 'The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard' go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; 'How fast does your new car go?'; 'We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus'; 'The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect'; 'The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell'; 'news travelled fast' |
| 2. | ghost - haunt like a ghost; pursue; 'Fear of illness haunts her' preoccupy - engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; 'His work preoccupies him'; 'The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else' | |
| 3. | ghost - write for someone else; 'How many books have you ghostwritten so far?' authorship, penning, writing, composition - the act of creating written works; 'writing was a form of therapy for him'; 'it was a matter of disputed authorship' author - be the author of; 'She authored this play' |
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
ghost
noun1.spirit, soul, phantom, spectre, spook(informal), apparition, wraith, shade(literary), revenant, phantasmThe village is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
2.trace, shadow, suggestion, hint, suspicion, glimmer, semblanceHe gave the ghost of a smile.
Quotations
'Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end' [Stanley Kubrick]
'Even the living were only ghosts in the making' [Pat Barker The Ghost Road]
'Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end' [Stanley Kubrick]
'Even the living were only ghosts in the making' [Pat Barker The Ghost Road]
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
ghost
noun1. A supernatural being, such as a ghost:apparition, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, eidolon, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, visitant, wraith.
Regional: haunt.
2. A slight amount or indication:breath, dash, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, touch, trace, whiff, whisper.
verbInformal. To write for and credit authorship to another:
The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
духдушапривидениепризракфантом
duchpřízrakstrašidlo
árnyárnyalakárnyképfantomjelenés
draugur, afturganga
幽霊
animalarvalemuresmanesphasma
dvasiapaskutinį kvapą išleistišmėklašmėkliškasvaiduoklis
spookartefactgeest
duchfantommajakupiórwidmo
duhfantom
spökeandefantom
ma
ghost
[gəʊst]A.N → fantasmam, espectrom (TV) → imagenffantasma
Holy Ghost (Rel) → EspíritumSanto
he hasn't the ghost of a chance → no tiene la másremotaposibilidad
she managed the ghost of a smile → consiguióesbozar un amago de sonrisa
to give up the ghost (= die) → entregar el alma (hum) [car, washing machine, etc] →
Holy Ghost (Rel) → EspíritumSanto
he hasn't the ghost of a chance → no tiene la másremotaposibilidad
she managed the ghost of a smile → consiguióesbozar un amago de sonrisa
to give up the ghost (= die) → entregar el alma (hum) [car, washing machine, etc] →
B.VT [+ book] → escribir por otro
an autobiography ghosted by Peters → una autobiografíaescrita por el negro Peters
an autobiography ghosted by Peters → una autobiografíaescrita por el negro Peters
C.CPDghost imageN (Cine, TV) → imagenffantasma
ghost storyN → cuentom de fantasmas
ghost townN → pueblomfantasma
ghost trainN → trenmfantasma
ghost storyN → cuentom de fantasmas
ghost townN → pueblomfantasma
ghost trainN → trenmfantasma
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
ghost
[ˈgəʊst]n to give up the ghost → rendre l'âme
not the ghost of a chance → pas l'ombre d'une chance
the ghost of a chance of doing sth → l'ombre d'une chance de faire qch
the ghost of a chance of doing sth → l'ombre d'une chance de faire qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
ghost
n(= apparition) → Geistm, → Gespenstnt; (of sb) → Geistm
(fig)with the ghost of a smile → mit dem Anflug eines Lächelns; she gave the ghost of a smile → sie lächeltezaghaft; I don’t have or stand the ghost of a chance → ich habe nicht die geringsteChance
to give up the ghost(dated inf) → seinen orden Geist aufgeben
(= writer) → Ghostwriterm
vtto be ghosted → von einem Ghostwritergeschrieben sein; to have something ghosted → sich(dat) → etw von einem Ghostwriterschreibenlassen; to ghost somebody’s books/speeches → für jdnBücher/Reden (als Ghostwriter) schreiben
ghost
in cpds →Ghost Ezra Telegram
Geister-;ghost story
ghost town
ghost train
ghostwriter
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
ghost
[gəʊst]1.n → fantasmam, spettro
the ghost of a smile (fig) → una parvenza di sorriso
he hasn't the ghost of a chance (fig) → non ha la minimapossibilità
the ghost of a smile (fig) → una parvenza di sorriso
he hasn't the ghost of a chance (fig) → non ha la minimapossibilità
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
ghost
(gəust) noun a spirit, usually of a dead person. Do you believe in ghosts?; Hamlet thought he saw his father's ghost. spook شَبَح призрак fantasma duch der Geist ånd; spøgelse φάντασμαfantasma vaim, tont روح aave fantôme רוח רפאים भूत duh, prikaza szellem hantu draugur, afturganga fantasma 幽霊 유령 dvasia, šmėkla, vaiduoklis parādība; rēgs; spoks hantu spookspøkelse, gjenferdduch شبح، روح، دمړه اروا( وائى چې دژوندى جسم په توګه څرګنديږى fantasma fantomă привидение duch duh duh spöke, vålnad ผี hayalet 鬼魂 привид بھوت ma 幽灵，鬼
ˈghostly adjective of or like a ghost or ghosts. a ghostly figure. spookagtige شَبَحي призрачен fantasmagórico přízračný geisterhaft åndelig; spøgelsesagtig; spøgelses- που μοιάζει με φάντασμα fantasmagórico tontlik روح مانند aavemainen fantomatique של רוח רפאים प्रेतरूपी poput duha kísérteties seperti hantu draugalegur spettrale 幽霊のような 유령 같은 vaiduokliškas, šmėkliškas rēgains; spokains seperti hantu spookachtigspøkelsesaktig upiorny دارواپه ډول fantasmal fantomatic похожий на привидение hrôzostrašný kot duh sablasan spöklik, spök- เหมือนผี hayalet gibi 鬼(般)的 схожий на привид; примарний بھوت سے متعلق thuộc hoặc là ma 鬼的，幽灵似的
give up the ghostGhost
to die. die gees gee يَموت умирам morrer vypustit duši den Geist aufgeben opgive ånden παραδίδω το πνεύμα entregar el alma hinge heitma مردن menettää henkensä rendre l'âme למות मरना ispustiti dušu kileheli a lelkét mati draugalega rendere l'anima 死ぬ 죽다 paskutinį kvapą išleisti izlaist garu; nomirt mati de geest geven oppgi ånden, dø wyzionąć ducha مړ کیدل morrer a muri испустить дух vypustiť dušu izdihniti umreti ge upp andan ยอมตาย ölmek, can vermek 死 померти متوفی ہو جانا chết 死
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
ghost
→ شَبَح duch spøgelseGeistφάντασμαfantasma kummitusfantôme duhfantasma 幽霊 유령Ghost Band New Album
spookspøkelseduchfantasmaпривидение spöke ผีhayalet ma鬼Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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