Ghost

Noun

 * 1) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
 * 2) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
 * 3) A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
 * 4) An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
 * 5)  A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.
 * 6)  An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
 * 7)  an image of a file or hard disk.
 * 8)  The spirit; the soul of man.

Verb

 * 1)  To haunt.
 * 2)  To ghostwrite.
 * 3)  To ghostwrite.
 * 4)  to copy a file or hard drive image.

Adjectives for Ghost
sheeted; gigantic; livid; lofty; gliding; glowing; drab; pale; frighted; silvery; collaborating; sweet; songless; pathetic; slender; reflected; mad; aimless; restless; peaceful; infernal; beckoning; disturbed; pensive; pious; haunting; handsome; graphical; headless; shrouded; honest.

Verbs for Ghost
give up—; harbor—; perceive—; raise—; shape—; speak to—; —beckons; —cries; — flits; —follows; —glares; —haunts; — howls; —points; —prowls; —pursues; — returns; —scares; —shadows; —stalks; — torments; —vanishes; —visits.

Synonyms for Ghost

 * soul, spirit
 * apparition, haint, phantom, revenant, specter/spectre, spook, wraith.
 * glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, hint, inkling, spark, suggestion.
 * ghostwriter
 * vision, shadow, haunt, apparition, sprite, goblin, image, banshee, fairy, appearance, delusion, hallucination.
 * ghostwriter
 * vision, shadow, haunt, apparition, sprite, goblin, image, banshee, fairy, appearance, delusion, hallucination.

Antonyms for Ghost
matter, substance, reality, body, materiality, substantiality, actuality, fact, essence, existence, being.

Derived terms

 * antighost
 * Faddeev–Popov ghost
 * ghost band
 * ghost bat
 * ghost bike
 * ghost catshark
 * ghost chili
 * ghost condensate
 * ghost crab
 * ghost dance
 * ghost detainee
 * Ghost Festival
 * ghost flathead
 * ghost fleet
 * ghost frog
 * ghost fungus
 * ghost goal
 * ghost gum
 * ghost hunting
 * ghost imaging
 * ghost insect
 * ghost island
 * ghost knifefish
 * ghost light
 * ghost mark


 * ghost moth
 * ghost net
 * ghost note
 * ghost of a chance
 * ghost orchid
 * ghostly
 * ghost pepper
 * ghost ramp
 * ghost-riding
 * ghost runner
 * ghost ship
 * ghost shrimp
 * ghost sickness
 * ghost sign
 * ghost skate
 * ghost slug
 * ghost station
 * ghost story
 * ghost town
 * ghost train
 * ghost voting
 * ghost world
 * ghostwriter
 * give up the ghost
 * grey ghost
 * Holy Ghost

Thesaurus
proxy, rain, relief, relieve, replace, replacement, represent, representative, reserves, revenant, reviewer, ride, ride the sea, ringer, rolling, run, sail, scanning pattern, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, scenario writer, scenarist, scenarize, scintilla, scintillation, scribe, scriptwriter, scud, second string, secondary, shade, shading, shadow, shape, shoot, short-story writer, shrouded spirit, sign, skim, slip, snow, snowstorm, spares, specter, spectral ghost, spell, spell off, spirit, spook, sprite, stand in for, stand-in, storyteller, sub, subrogate, substituent, substitute, substitute for, substitution, succedaneum, succeed, succubus, suggestion, supersede, superseder, supplant, supplanter, surrogate, swap places with, symbol, synecdoche, technical writer, terror, theophany, third string, throw on paper, token, trace, understudy, understudy for, unsubstantiality, utility player, vampire, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, vision, walk the waters, walking dead man, wandering soul, werewolf, word painter, wordsmith, wraith, write, writer, zombie, Doppelganger, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf-man, act for, advertising writer, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, annalist, apparition, appearance, art critic, astral, astral spirit, author, authoress, backup, banshee, belletrist, bibliographer, black spot, bloom, blooping, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bugaboo, bugbear, change, change places with, changeling, coauthor, collaborate, collaborator, columnist, comparison, compiler, compose, composer, control, copy, copywriter, counterfeit, creative writer, critic, crowd out, cut out, dance critic, dash off, definition, demon, departed spirit, deputy, devil, diarist, disembodied spirit, displace, double, double for, drama critic, dramatist, drift, dummy, duppy, dybbuk, editorialize, eidolon, encyclopedist, equal, equivalent, ersatz, essayist, exchange, fake, fee-faw-fum, fill in for, fill-in, flare, float, foot, form, formulate, free lance, free-lance, free-lance writer, frightener, fringe area, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghoul, glide, glimmer, granulation, grateful dead, grid, guide, hallucination, hant, hard shadow, haunt, hint, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, humorist, idolum, illusion, image, imitation, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus, indite, inditer, knock off, knock out, larva, lemures, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, locum tenens, logographer, magazine writer, makeshift, man of letters, manes, materialization, metaphor, metonymy, monographer, monster, multiple image, music critic, newspaperman, next best thing, nightmare, noise, novelettist, novelist, novelize, ogre, ogress, oni, pamphleteer, penwoman, personnel, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, phony, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, pinch hitter, pinch-hit, plow the deep, poet, poltergeist, prepare, presence, produce, prose writer,

Etymology
From gost: and gast:, from  gast:, from. Cognate with Afrikaans gees, archaic Danish gejst:, Dutch geest, Frisian geast, German Geist, Scots ghaist and Yiddish גײַסט (gayst).

Noun

 * Alabama: aatsollokchi, sollòkchi
 * Albanian:, lugat, , vurkollak
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: pantasma, espectro , espírito , aparición , sombra , alma
 * Aranese: hantauma
 * Armenian: ուրվական
 * Asturian: pantasma, espectru , espíritu , apaición , sombra , alma
 * Basque: mamu
 * Bengali: ভুত (bhut)
 * Breton: tasmant, spes
 * Bulgarian:, , , ,
 * Catalan:, espectre, , aparició , ombra , ánima
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏣᏍᎩᎵ (anitsasgili)
 * Chinese:
 * Croatian:, , , ,
 * Czech:, , , zjevení, stín, fantóm, vidina, příšera
 * Danish:, genganger, , gespenst, , draug, sjæl
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:, , fantoom
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: fantoom, kummitus, viirastus, lummutis, tont
 * Faroese: dreygur, andi
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Old French:
 * Friulian: fantàsime, parence
 * Galician: pantasma, espectro , espírito , aparición , sombra , alma
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , Spuk, Erscheinung, Wahngebilde, Trugbild,
 * Greek:, φάσμα, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: भूत (bhūt), आत्मा, जीव, प्रेत, छाया
 * Hungarian:, , , , jelenés, rémkép
 * Icelandic: draugur, andi, vofa, afturganga, sál
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, roh, dedemitan, polong, momok
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, , , , , , anima , , fantasima , lemure
 * Karbi: chamburukso, hi-eh
 * Khmer: (kmaoch)
 * Ladin: spiert, utschac, fantom
 * Latgalian:, ,
 * Latin:, , phasma, , , , , lemures,
 * Latvian: parādība, spoks, gars, fantoms
 * Limburgish: geis, sjpook


 * Lithuanian: vaiduoklis, pamėklė, fantomas, šmėkla, dvasia, vėlė
 * Low Saxon: spoek, spökels, spöök, jeist, je'spanst
 * Lower Sorbian: tšašydło, šarjenje , wopokazowanje , fantom
 * Luxembourgish: Gespenst, Geescht, Phantom
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ħares, ruħ, fatat, spirtu
 * Maori: këhua, taipö
 * Marathi: भूत (bhūt)
 * Middle English: goost
 * Moksha: sashendy kula
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian: spøkelse, gjenferd, gjenganger, dobbeltgjenger, fantom, ånd, dauding, skrømt, gespenster, draug, sjel
 * Occitan: fantauma, esglasi, trèva
 * Old High German: geist, egisgrīmolt, gitrog, skīnleihhi, tiufal
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Picard: rëv’nant, rvënant, spèke
 * Polish:, upiór, widmo, , zwid, zjawa, majak
 * Portuguese:, , , aparição, assombração, abantesma, avantesma, abentesma, aventesma, avejão, simulacro, lêmure, , ,
 * Romanian: fantomă, fantasmă, spectru, spirit, strigoi, stafie, duh, apariţie
 * Romansch: spiert, fantom
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: भूत (bhūt), प्रेत, वेताल, पिशाच
 * Sardinian: pantùma, pantàsima , umbra
 * Saterland Frisian: spouk, gäist
 * Scots: ghaist, phanton, boodie, bogle
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian:, , , , , avetinja, , upirina
 * Slovak:, prízrak, zjavenie, mátoha, , spomienka, fantóm, tieň
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:, , , , , ,
 * Sumerian: lalartu
 * Sundanese: jurig
 * Swahili: kivuli (noun 7/8), mzuka
 * Swedish:, spökbild, , , vålnad, gast, hamn, gengångare, dubbelgångare, skugga, draug, själ
 * Tagalog: multo, aparisyon, aswang
 * Tamil: பேய்
 * Telugu: దయ్యం, ప్రేతాత్మ, పిశాచి, భూతం
 * Thai: (pĕe),  (praai), ภูต (phuud)
 * Tlingit: s'igeekáawu
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Tuvan: дөргү, ора-сома, хей чүве, чиргилчин, сүнезин
 * Ukrainian:, марево, примара, ,
 * Vietnamese: ma, ma quỉ, hồn người chết quái tượng
 * Walloon: spér
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:, ,


 * Darkinjung:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian:, árnykép, árnyalak


 * Luhya:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili: mizuka,
 * Telugu: దయ్యం (dayyaM), ప్రేతాత్మ (prEtaatma), పిశాచి (piSaachi), భూతం (bhootaM)


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: haamukuva


 * Swahili: mizuka
 * Telugu: భూతాకారం (bhootaakaaraM)


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: spookbeeld
 * Finnish: haamukuva


 * Hungarian: szellemkép
 * Swahili: mizuka


 * : spook, gees, fantoom, klopgeeste, skim, siel
 * : tcpai
 * : ጣረሞት (t'arämot)
 * : enfantome, enfantesme, enfanteime, fantosme, faintosme, fantame, fantasme, fantaime, fanthome, fantome, fantesme, faunteme, fauntesme, fentosme, espirit, espirite, espirist, espirith, espiritt, espereit, esperist, esperit, esperite, esparit, esprist, esprit, espriz, espirt, esperi, spirit
 * : ভূত (bhut), ভূতুনী, অশৰীৰী (o.xo.ri.ri)
 * : kabus, xəyal, kölgə, qarabasma
 * : здань, сцень
 * : ভুত
 * : avet, duh, utvara, sablast, fantom
 * : kalag
 * : ɨ'nɨp(i)
 * : fantasma, spettru, spiritu, spirdu, murtulone, mortulone, visione, anima, ombra
 * : cîpay
 * : un-hultho, un-hultha, skohsl, ahma
 * : póra, ánga
 * : fantom
 * : lapu, akua, mauli, wailua, haili, makani, ʻula, hoaka, akalau
 * : al-alia
 * : kalag
 * : phantasma, spectro, spirito, anima, apparition
 * : духови
 * : matoatoa
 * : scaa, scaan, scaanjoon, spyrryd
 * : ʼish nyoym
 * : ui
 * : сїнс, сїг, хий їзэгдэл
 * : fantasmà, spìreto, spèttr
 * : gást, cargást, dwimor, egesgríma, déofolscín, gliderung, scinn, scinna, scinnhíw, gríma, gaast, becola, becole
 * : cukut (2)
 * : carcaveja, fantasma, spetr, spìrit
 * : kukuchi, kuku, manchachiku
 * : fantomă, stafie,, ,
 * : tagradh, taibhs, taibhse, tannas, tannasg, tàcharan, fuathas
 * : öräk
 * : arwah
 * : šerjenje, duch, zjewjenje, bobak
 * : ajina, arvoh
 * : fantàsma, spètro, spìrito, ànema
 * : späk, lan
 * : bwci, bwgan , drychiolaeth , ysbryd
 * : śpiort, fętazmat

Anagrams

 * goths, Goths