Thesaurus: ghost

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1. n. The spirit; the soul of man.
2. n. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
3. n. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
4. n. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
5. v. i. To die; to expire.
6. v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
7. n. a mental representation of some haunting experience
8. n. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
9. n. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
10. n. a suggestion of some quality
11. v. move like a ghost
12. v. haunt like a ghost; pursue