SkyfireDict

ghost   (TTS Sound)

The noun ghost has 4 senses

• ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre -- (a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past")


• ghostwriter, ghost -- (a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else)


• ghost -- (the visible disembodied soul of a dead person)


• touch, trace, 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")

The verb ghost has 3 senses

• ghost -- (move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard")


• haunt, obsess, ghost -- (haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her")


• ghost, ghostwrite -- (write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?")