ghost
/ɡəʊst/
A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; A spirit
- plural
- ghosts
Meanings
- 1
A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death
Tom is scared of ghosts.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
I didn't see a ghost.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
A spirit; a human soul
- 3
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image
- 4
A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen)
- 5
A copy of a file or record
- 6
A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffitirare
- 7
A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefitrare
- 8
A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting)rare
- 9
An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the serverrare
- 10
An understudyrare