Ghost

Definition: Ghost

Ghost

Noun

1. A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past".

2. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else.

3. The visible disembodied soul of a dead person.

4. A suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face".

Verb

1. Move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard".

2. Haunt like a ghost; pursue; ""Fear of illness haunts her".

3. Write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?".

Date "ghost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. He saw a ghost. It occupied -- that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following. Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost. He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood. The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post. Jared Macphester Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience. There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Computing	Ghost (Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on IRC and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated (properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the network at large) believes the connection is still active and belongs to a real user. Compare clonebot. (1997-04-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Bible	Ghost an old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew _nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma_, both meaning "breath," "life," "spirit," the "living principle" (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:9; Matt. 27:50; John 19:30). The expression "to give up the ghost" means to die (Lam. 1:19; Gen. 25:17; 35:29; 49:33; Job 3:11). (See HOLY GHOST.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of the ghost of either one of your parents, denotes that you are exposed to danger, and you should be careful in forming partnerships with strangers. To see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long journey with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments. For a ghost to speak to you, you will be decoyed into the hands of enemies. For a woman, this is a prognostication of widowhood and deception. To see an angel or a ghost appear in the sky, denotes the loss of kindred and misfortunes. To see a female ghost on your right in the sky and a male on your left, both of pleasing countenance, signifies a quick rise from obscurity to fame, but the honor and position will be filled only for a short space, as death will be a visitor and will bear you off. To see a female ghost in long, clinging robes floating calmly through the sky, indicates that you will make progression in scientific studies and acquire wealth almost miraculously, but there will be an under note of sadness in your life. To dream that you see the ghost of a living relative or friend, denotes that you are in danger of some friend's malice, and you are warned to carefully keep your affairs under personal supervision. If the ghost appears to be haggard, it may be the intimation of the early death of that friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Electrical Engineering	A spurious additional image of a picture highlight caused by photoelectrons reflected from the target at high velocity and subsequently returning to it at other locations. Source: European Union. (references)
	A defect, apparent in reproduction, in which a second or third outline of prominent features of a picture may be observed displaced from the correct position of the outline by a noticeable amount in the direction of the scanning lines. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Ghost To give up the ghost. To die. The idea is that life is independent of the body, and is due to the habitation of the ghost or spirit in the material body. At death the ghost or spirit leaves this tabernacle of clay, and either returns to God or abides in the region of spirits till the general resurrection. Thus in Ecc. xii. 7 it is said, "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." "Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?" - Job xiv. 10. The ghost of a chance. The least likelihood. "He has not the ghost of a chance of being elected," not the shadow of a probability. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Transportation	An erroneous indication given by a signal providing an interference light. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
GHOST	English	Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique	Computer - (TUB)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Ghost

Synonyms: ghostwriter (n), shade (n), specter (n), spectre (n), spook (n), touch (n), trace (n), wraith (n), ghostwrite (v), haunt (v), obsess (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Book	Writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; poet.
Corpse	Shade, ghost, manes.
Death	Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.
Deity	The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune God, God the Father Son and Holy Ghost.
	God the Holy Ghost, The Holy Spirit, Paraclete; The Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, The Dove.
Demon	Ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures; evil eye.
Fear	Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.
Improbability	Noun: improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility.
Intellect	Soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
Manifestation	Phrase: cela saute aux yeux; he that runs may read; you can see it with half an eye; it needs no ghost to tell us; the meaning lies on the surface; cela va sans dire; res ipsa loquitur; "clothing the palpable and familiar"; fari quae sentiat; volto sciolto i pensieri stretti; "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows".
Orthodoxy	The Church; Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian community; true believer; canonist; (theologian); Christendom, collective body of Christians.
Sorcery	Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.
Ugliness	Squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Dear step daughter You look as if you've seen a ghost! (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher) If my mom's a ghost, did she forget about me (Casper; writing credit: Sherri Stoner; Deanna Oliver) Scrappy! for the thousandth time, there's no such things as ghost. (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) The ghost of Caesar Chavez (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Lyrics	The ghost of you and me (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak) The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) Still I can't escape the ghost of you (Ordinary World; performing artist: Duran Duran) You know that ghost is me (If You Could Read My Mind; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot) From the ghost in the closet, the monkey on your back (Halfway To Memphis; performing artist: Sammy Hagar)
Movie/TV Titles	The Canterville Ghost (1974) Ghost Story (1974) Alabama's Ghost (1972) Ghost Story (1972) To Lay a Ghost (1971)
Song Titles	My Boo (performing artist: Ghost Town DJ's)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Ghost Image (reference) Arizona's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: A Travel Guide to History (reference) Ghost Towns of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns (Pictorial Discovery Guide) (reference) Septimus and the minster ghost mystery (reference) Father Phillip Tells a Ghost Story (Padre Phillip Hoce Un Cuento de Fantasmas): A Story of Divine Mercy (Un Cuento de La Divina Misericordia) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Ghost Wings Magazine (reference) Montana Ghost Town Quarterly (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Ghost (reference) Ghost in the Shell (reference) Yu-Gi-Oh - Give Up the Ghost (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (reference) Giving Up the Ghost (reference) Gondoliers of Ghost Lake (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Ghost Recon (reference) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Mission Pack: Island Thunder (reference) Norton Ghost 2002 (reference) Scooby-Doo: Showdown in Ghost Town (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of a colorful cosmic ghost, the glowing ... Credit: NASA.		The tide staff at Skamokawa - a ghost town on the Lower Columbia River. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	The tide house at Skamokawa - a ghost town on the Lower Columbia River. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A ghost crab outside of its burrow. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).
	Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Dune plants like sea oats and railroad vine help to anchor dune systems. Ghost crab tracks are seen proceeding diagonnally from lower left to the right center of the image. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).		Hake lie near the base of a lost "ghost" lobster trap. Urophycis. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
	Snorkeler retrieves ghost traps from the grip of a submersible. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Historic structure at Animas Forks ghost town along the Alpine Loop National Back Country Byway. Credit: Unknown.
	Davies store in Garnet Ghost Town. Credit: Unknown.		"Gas stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in the winter of 1973-74 were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, west of Olympia was turned into a religious meeting hall. Signs painted on the gas pumps proclaim 'fill up with the Holy Ghost . . . and Salvation.'". Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Play	Caption
	Boo; ghost; scare; scary; sneak up; sneaked up; surprise; surprising; sneaking up; ghoul; phantom; poltergeist; Halloween.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Colton	Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Edward Gibbon	The evidence of the heavenly witnesses -- the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost -- would now be rejected in any court of Justice.
Francis Bacon	The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Thomas Carlyle	No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	It was a perfectly flavourless Ghost.
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	But the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as if he were quite used to it.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	He looked like a ghost, evoked unseasonably from the grave
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	They said it was the ghost of a murderer
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	GHOST OF VAUGHAN
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Zimbabwe	On August 22, police arrested and questioned Mark Chavunduka, editor of the independent weekly The Standard about an article that alleged that President Mugabe is haunted by the ghost of a former political opponent, which The Standard reprinted from a foreign newspaper. (references)
Worker Rights	Nigeria	Ghost workers (who appear on the employment rolls but not on the job) remained a significant problem that was not addressed fully during the year. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ghost" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.25% of the time. "Ghost" is used about 1,234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.25%	1,200	6,453
Noun (proper)	1.46%	18	82,615
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.65%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.49%	6	143,867
Noun (common)	0.16%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	1,234	N/A

Expressions using "ghost": Bidwell ghost ♦ Bidwell's ghost ♦ ghost a book for smb. ♦ Ghost dance ♦ ghost driver ♦ ghost echo ♦ ghost gum ♦ Ghost Image ♦ Ghost moth ♦ ghost of a smile ♦ ghost of one's former self ♦ ghost story ♦ ghost town ♦ ghost train ♦ ghost vampire ♦ ghost weed ♦ ghost word ♦ ghost writer ♦ give up the ghost ♦ God the Father Son and Holy Ghost ♦ holly ghost ♦ holy ghost ♦ it needs no ghost to tell us ♦ lay a ghost ♦ procession of the Holy Ghost ♦ the ghost ♦ the holy ghost ♦ To give up the ghost ♦ to yield the ghost ♦ to yield the ghost up ♦ to yield up the ghost ♦ wander like a ghost ♦ yield up the ghost. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ghost": ghost-appears, ghost-bagging, ghost-bottlers, ghost-bottling, ghost-breakers, ghost-crabs, Ghost-dance, ghost-desks, ghost-fleet, ghost-fleets, ghost-huntsmen, ghost-inhabited, ghost-life, ghost-like, ghost-muster, ghost-negative, ghost-nipple, ghost-reasons, ghost-relic, ghost-ridden, ghost-riders, ghost-shrimp, ghost-story, ghost-train, ghost-trussers, ghost-voice, ghost-world, ghost-write, ghost-writer, ghost-writers, ghost-writing, ghost-written, ghost-wrote.
	Ending with "ghost": moon-ghost, sage-ghost, she-ghost.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ghost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		spook (phantom), gees (fairy, intellect, mind, phantom, soul, spirit). (various references)

Albanian		xhind (genie, jinn, jinnee), shkruaj për të tjerë, shkrimtar fantazmë (ghost writer), ndjek si hije, hije (apparition, background, cloud, color, colour, dark, loom, phantasm, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith), figurë e dubluar, fantazmë (apparition, eidolon, haunt, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spirit, wraith). (various references)

Arabic		خيال (imagination), ‏زور (counterfeit, forge, spectrum, tamper, tinker), ‏طيف (idol, phantom, shade, shadow, spectrum, vision, wraith), ‏خيال (conceit, fantasy, fiction, illusion, imagination, phantasy, shade, shadow, shape, silhouette, spectrum, spook, wraith), ‏روح شريرة (evil spirit, ghoul, poltergeist), ‏روح (circulate, fan, life, pneuma, psyche, shade, soul, spirit), ‏ظل (keep, lie, remain, shade, shadow, umbra, umbrage), ‏شبح (apparition, bogey, evil spirit, gremlin, idol, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Bulgarian		сянка (cloud, reflection, shade, shadow, umbrage), следа (footprint, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, relish, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, shadow, show, shred, sign, spice, tang, touch, trace, track, trail, train, trait, vestige, whiff), фантом (idol, phantom), бродя като дух, привидение (boggard, eidolon, fetch, phantasm, phantom, shade, shape, spectre, vision, visitant), призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spirit, spook, vision, wraith), пиша вместо друг автор, пиша анонимно, дух (fetch, mettle, mind, morale, pecker, phantasm, presence, shade, soul, spirit, spook, tone, visitant), душа (breast, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nose, nuzzle, psyche, quest, scent, scrag, smell, smell about, smother, sniff, soul, spirit, stifle, throttle). (various references)

Chinese		鬼魂 . (various references)

Czech		duch (apparition, esprit, gimp, mind, psyche, soul, spectre, spirit, spook). (various references)

Danish		spøgelsescelle (blood shadow, ghost cell, ghost cell corpuscle, phantom corpuscle, shadow corpuscle), spøgelsesbillede (double image, ghost image, multiple image, phantom), skyggecelle (blood shadow, ghost cell, ghost cell corpuscle, phantom corpuscle, shadow corpuscle), ekkobillede (double image, echo image, ghost image, multiple image), ekko (echo), ånd (phantom, spirit). (various references)

Dutch		geest (fairy, intellect, mind, phantom, soul, spirit), blinde (blind, phantom, sightless person). (various references)

Esperanto		fantomo (phantom). (various references)

Faeroese		spøkilsi (phantom), hamur (phantom), dreygur (phantom), andi (mind, phantom, spirit). (various references)

Farsi		چون روح برخانه هاوغیره سرزدن , تجسم روح , خیال (Design, Dump, Fancy, Fiction, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith), جان (Breath, Life, Spirit), روان (Cursive, Easy, Fluent, Glib, Handy, Liquid, Psyche, Smooth, Spirit, Versatile, Voluble), روح (Esprit, Numen, Phantom, Psyche, Specter, Spirit, Spook, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith, Zinc, Zing), شبح (Phantom, Spectrum, Spook, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith). (various references)

Finnish		aave (apparition, phantom, spectre, spook). (various references)

French		revenant, fantôme. (various references)

Frisian		spoek (phantom). (various references)

German		Geist (esprit, intellect, mettle, mind, phantom, psyche, specter, spirit, wit), gespenst (phantom, specter, spectre, spectres, spook, wraith), Spuk (din, fuss, palaver, phantom, racket, spook, to-do), Doppelbild (echo image, ghost image, multiple image). (various references)

Greek		φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, gnome, hobgoblin, phantasm, phantom, pixy, specter, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Hebrew		דבוק (attached, attaching, evil spirit, glued, incubus, joining, obsession, sticking, stuck), צל (protection, shade, shadow, shelter). (various references)

Hungarian		szellem (appearance, cock of the walk, genious, intellect, jinn, jinnee, jinni, mind, moral, morale, poltergeist, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, wit), lélek (breast, censorship, conscience, critter, metal, mind, psyche, soul, spirit), kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, eidolon, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shadow, specter, spectre, spook, vampire, wraith), irodalmi néger (ghostwriter), hazajáró lélek (spook), hamis színképvonal. (various references)

Indonesian		siluman (monster), hantu (apparition, fiend, genie, goblin, imp). (various references)

Irish		taibhse. (various references)

Italian		fantasma (apparition, bogeyman, ghoul, phantom, shadow, specter, spectre, wraith). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		亡霊 (apparition, departed spirits, the dead), 死霊 (departed soul, spirit of a dead person), 幽霊 (apparition, phantom, specter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おばけ (apparition, goblin, monster), しりょう (careful consideration, data, departed soul, feed, fodder, historical records, materials, sample, spirit of a dead person, test piece, thought), しれい (command, commander, control, departed soul, directive, instructions, orders, spirit of a dead person), ぼうれい (apparition, atrocity, departed spirits, the dead, tyranny), ばけもの (apparition, goblin, monster, phantom, spectre), せいれい (cabinet order, diligence, government ordinance, industry, regulations, soul, spirit, the holy ghost), こんぱく (soul, spirit), れい (actor, case, cold, command, companion, cool, custom, departed soul, dictation, example, experience, expression of gratitude, illustration, instance, nought, order, parallel, precedent, soul, spirit, usage, zero), ゆうれい (apparition, phantom, specter), ゆうき (boldness, bravery, courage, definite period or term, departed soul, evocation, evoke, nerve, organic, revenant, spirit, valour), もののけ (specter), ゴースト , ようま (apparition, Western-style room), ようかい (apparition, demon, fusing, goblin, melting, monster, phantom, solution, spectre), へんげ (apparition, bugbear, goblin). (various references)

Korean		유령 (specter, spectre). (various references)

Malay		hantu (phantom). (various references)

Manx		spyrryd (common tern, esprit, morale, psyche, spirit), scaanjoon (bogle, phantom), scaan (apparition, double, reflection, spectre, spirit, spook), scaa goanlyssagh, scaa (a very thin person, adumbration, apparition, blight; thirds, cover, fence, fencing, fire guard, guise, hood, pretence, screen, shade, shadiness, shadow, timidity), jannoo scaan (ghosting). (various references)

Norwegian		spøkelse, ånd. (various references)

Papiamen		zumbi (phantom), spiritu (phantom, spirit), spirito (phantom), fantasma (phantom), beako (phantom). (various references)

Pig Latin		ostghay.(various references)

Portuguese		fantasma (apparition, bogle, bugaboo, bugbear, eidolon, golliwog, haunt, hob, leprechaun, phantasm, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), aparição (apparition, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spirit, spook). (various references)

Romanian		stafie (apparition, shadow, spectre, spook), arãtare (apparation, presentation, showing, wraith), duh (genius, soul, spirit, wit), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith, zombie), iazmã, moroi (hedgehog, poltergeist), nãlucã (apparition, chimera, shape, spectre, spook), pãpãludã, apariţie (advent, apparition, appearance, arrival, birth, emergence, entry, issue, occurrence, peep, phantom, shape, sight, spectre, vision), spirit (apparition, crack, essence, genius, intellect, mind, quirk, score, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), vedenie (apparition, shape, vision, wraith), stihie (element, nature, spectre), strigoaicã (hobgoblin), strigoi (hobgoblin, poltergeist, spirit, vampire), suflet (backbone, bosom, breast, breath, conscience, feeling, head, heart, inner man, Jack, life, life blood, man, mind, mortal, party, peppiness, soul, spirit), umbrã (cloud, dark, gloom, shade, shading, shadow), urmã de, vârcolac (spoon, vampire, Werewolf, werwolf), spectru (apparition, fetch, spectre, spectrum, spirit). (various references)

Russian		призрак (bogeyman, illusion, phantasm 1, phantom, shadow, shape, specter, spectre, spright, wraith). (various references)

Scottish		tannasg (an apparition), taibhse (apparition), tagradh (claiming, pleading, reasoning). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sablast (bogle, specter, spook, visitant), duh (jinnee, soul, spirit, sprite, wraith), avet (apparition, bogey, bogle, phantom, specter, spook, visitant). (various references)

Spanish		fantasma (bogey, bogie, hallucination, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith). (various references)

Sranan		spuku (phantom), bakru (phantom), azema (phantom, vampire). (various references)

Swedish		spöke (apparition, bogey, boggard, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, phantom, specter, spectre, spirit, spook), spökbild (echo image, ghost image, multiple image), gast (hand, phantom, seaman). (various references)

Thai		ผี (eidolon, fetch). (various references)

Turkish		hortlak (ghoul, phantom, spook). (various references)

Ukrainian		тінь (dark, shade, shadow, umber, umbra, umbrage), з'являтися (appear, arise, come, dawn, emerge, make an appearance, present oneself, show up, walk), привид (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogy, caddy, eidolon, haunter, poltergeist, presence, spectre, spook, waff, wraith), примара (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogie, caddy, eidolon, illusion, phantom, poltergeist), переслідувати (bay, chase, drive, follow, hound, persecute, pursue, tag), душа (bosom, heart, mind, psyche, soul). (various references)

Vietnamese		sắp có lương, ma gầy như ma bóng mờ. (various references)

Welsh		ysbryd (apparition, spirit), bwgan (bogey, scarecrow), bwci (bogey, bugbear). (various references)

Yucatec		xtaabay (demon, phantom). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	gidim. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	effigie, effigiem, fantasma, imagine, imaginem, imagines, imagini, imaginis, imago, lamina, larva, phasma, phasma phasmatis, umbra, umbrae, umbram, umbras. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	gast. (various references)
Spanish	900-Modern	sombra. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	spooc. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	spectre. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 15, Verse 37
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	O de ihsouV afeiV fwnhn megalhn exepneusen
Latin	405	Vulgate	Iesus autem emissa voce magna exspiravit
Old English	990	West Saxon	Se hælend þa asende his stefne & forð-ferde.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Jhesus yaf out a greet cry, and diede.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	But Iesus cryed with aloude voyce and gave vp the gooste.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and expired.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Jesus gave a loud cry, and gave up his spirit.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 15, Verse 37
Cebuano	Ug si Jesus, sa nakatuwaw siya sa makusog nga tingog, nabugtoan sa ginhawa.
Croatian	A Isus zavapi jakim glasom i izdahnu.
Danish	Men Jesus råbte med høj Røst og udåndede.
Dutch	En Jezus, een grote stem van Zich gegeven hebbende, gaf den geest.
Finnish	Ja temppelin esirippu repesi kahtia ylhäältä alas asti.
French	Mais Jésus, ayant poussé un grand cri, expira.
Gaelic	Agus Iosa ag eigheach le guth ard, thug e suas an anail.
German	Aber Jesus schrie laut und verschied.
Haitian Creole	Men Jezi bay yon gwo rèl, epi li mouri.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Lalu Yesus berteriak, dan meninggal.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi berserulah Yesus dengan suara besar, lalu putuslah nyawa-Nya.
Latvian	Bet Jçzus, stiprâ balsî iesaucies, atdeva savu Garu.
Maori	Na he nui te reo i puaki i a Ihu, a hemo ake.
Norwegian	Men Jesus ropte med høi røst og utåndet.
Portuguese	Mas Jesus, dando um grande brado, expirou.
Rumanian	Dar Isus a scos un strigqt tare, wi Wi -a dat duhul.
Shuar	Nuinkia Jesus kakaram untsumak jakamiayi.
Swahili	Yesu akapaaza sauti kubwa, akakata roho.
Swedish	Men Jesus ropade med hög röst och gav upp andan.
Uma	Ngkai ree, kame'au-nami Yesus napesukui, pai' modupe' -mi inoha' -na.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ghost": ghosted, ghostier, ghostiest, ghosting, ghostings, ghostlier, ghostliest, ghostlike, ghostliness, ghostlinesses, ghostly, ghosts, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghostwriters, ghostwrites, ghostwriting, ghostwritten, ghostwrote, ghosty. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ghost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gcho, gehabt, Gehlot, geost, ghat, Gheest, ghes, Ghiotti, ghit, Ghiz, Gho, ghoast, ghoat, ghods, Ghodse, ghoft, ghoit, ghosh, ghosht, Ghostie, ghosty, ghoti, ghout, ghuts, ghyst, gohsh, gohst, goost, Gosht, gost, Gosta, gosth, gosti, gshot, Zghorta. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ghost" (pronounced gō"st)
3	-ō" s t	boast, coast, diagnosed, engrossed, grossed, host, misdiagnosed, most, post, riposte, roast, toast.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: gosh, hogs, host, hots, shog, shot, soth, togs, tosh.
	-2 letters: gos, got, hog, hot, ohs, sot, tho, tog.
	-3 letters: go, ho, oh, os, sh, so, to.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: ghosts, ghosty, oughts, sought, thongs, toughs.
	+2 letters: bigshot, ghettos, ghosted, ghostly, goatish, gothics, growths, gunshot, hoggets, hognuts, hogties, hostage, hosting, hotdogs, mugshot, noughts, outgush, photogs, shotgun, throngs, troughs.
	+3 letters: besought, bigshots, bushgoat, droughts, eightvos, ghettoes, ghostier, ghosting, goatfish, gothites, gunshots, hangouts, highspot, histogen, hoisting, hostages, mugshots, nothings, oghamist, outsight, resought, roughest, shooting, shortage, shorting, shotguns, shotting, shouting, soothing, southing, theologs, thoughts, tonights, toughens, toughest, toughies, toughish, unsought, warthogs, yoghurts.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
ghost	9,904	ghost in jar	335
ghost picture	3,840	ghost orchid	329
ghost story	2,765	ghost robot	313
ghost recon	2,659	ghost master	283
ghost town	1,687	ghost sighting	278
norton ghost	1,425	ghost of the abyss	273
ghost ship	1,026	ghost writer	264
photo of ghost	852	real ghost	259
ghost recon cheat	736	ghost hunter	254
ghost pic	702	thirteen ghost	249
ghost rider	682	norton ghost 2003	247
ghost script	588	space ghost	247
ghost cam	571	box cheat ghost recon x	235
ghost in the shell	565	scary ghost picture	215
real ghost picture	535	ghost world	207
ghost view	477	ghost ship soundtrack	193
true ghost story	453	ghost 2003	193
ghost recon mods	414	anatomy ghost	188
craft ghost star	414	norton ghost download	180
13 ghost	347	real ghost story	172
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Ghost" by Shapiro Gregory Commentary: "Pictures of ghosta."	"Ghost" by Maurizio Commentary: "Blu filtered naked body."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Ghost

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Colton

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Francis Bacon

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Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

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