Main Entry:
1ghost Pronunciation:
'gOstFunction:
nounEtymology: Middle English
gost, gast, from Old English
gAst; akin to Old High German
geist spirit, Sanskrit
heda anger
1 : the seat of life
or intelligence
: SOUL <give up the
ghost>
2 : a disembodied soul;
especially : the soul of a dead
person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness
3 : SPIRIT, DEMON4 a : a faint shadowy trace <a
ghost of a smile>
b : the least bit <not
a
ghost of a chance>
5 : a false image in a photographic negative or on a television screen caused
especially by reflection
6 : one who
ghostwrites7 : a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin
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ghostˇlike /
-"lIk/
adjective-
ghosty /
'gO-stE/
adjective