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- [gohst]
- /goʊst/
- /ɡəʊst/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [gohst]
- /goʊst/
Definitions of ghost word
- noun ghost the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons. 1
- noun ghost a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self. 1
- noun ghost a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance. 1
- noun ghost (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being. 1
- noun ghost the principle of life; soul; spirit. 1
- noun ghost Informal. ghost writer. 1
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Origin of ghost
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English goost (noun), Old English gāst; cognate with German Geist spirit
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Ghost
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
ghost popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
ghost usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for ghost
noun ghost
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- devil — In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit.
- demon — A demon is an evil spirit.
- soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
verb ghost
- dash off — If you dash off to a place, you go there very quickly.
- typewrite — use a typewriter
- pencil — a slender tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., containing a core or strip of graphite, a solid coloring material, or the like, used for writing or drawing.
- compose — The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
- comp — Comp is short for compensation.
adjective ghost
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
- depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
- no-show — a person who makes a reservation and neither uses nor cancels it.
Antonyms for ghost
noun ghost
- reality — the state or quality of being real.
- god — the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
- angel — Angels are spiritual beings that some people believe are God's servants in heaven.
- being — Being is the present participle of be1.
- entity — A thing with distinct and independent existence.
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