Dictionary Entry
ghost
ghost is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The spirit; the soul of man. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The spirit; the soul of man.
- 2noun
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
- 3noun
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
- 4noun
A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- 5intransitive verb
To die; to expire.
- 6transitive verb
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
- 7noun
a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"
"it aroused specters from his past"
- 8noun
a suggestion of some quality
"there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"
"he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
- 9noun
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- 10noun
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
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- 11verb
write for someone else
"How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
Synonyms
- 12verb
haunt like a ghost; pursue
"Fear of illness haunts her"
- 13verb
move like a ghost
"The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
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