Ghost

English Meaning

The spirit; the soul of man.

1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.
2. The center of spiritual life; the soul.
3. A demon or spirit.
4. A returning or haunting memory or image.
5. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile.
6. The tiniest bit: not a ghost of a chance.
7. A faint, false image, as:
8. A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.
9. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.
10. A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating.
11. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.
12. Informal A ghostwriter.
13. A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.
14. A fictitious employee or business.
15. Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
16. Informal To engage in ghostwriting.
17. To move noiselessly like a ghost: "Two young deer ghosted out of the woods” ( Nancy M. Debevoise).
18. To haunt.
19. Informal To ghostwrite: was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive.