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GHOST definition: 1. the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that…. Learn more.
ˈgōst. plural ghosts. Synonyms of ghost. 1. : the seat of life or intelligence : soul. give up the ghost. 2. : a disembodied soul. especially : the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness. 3. : spirit, demon. 4. a. : a faint shadowy trace. a ghost of a smile. b.
ghost, specter, spirit all refer to the disembodied soul of a person. A ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person, which appears or otherwise makes its presence known to the living: the ghost of a drowned child.
1. the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom. 2. a haunting memory: the ghost of his former life rose up before him. 3. a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer: a ghost of a smile.
A ghost is the spirit of a person who's died. In most stories and myths, ghosts are pale, translucent, and wispy. Throughout history, the idea that a person's soul or spirit can remain visible after her death has been common.
An animating or vital principle; a person's spirit or soul. I.1. Old English–. The animating or vital principle in humans and animals; that which gives life to the body, in contrast to its purely material being; the life force, the breath of life. Now rare except in expressions relating to death, esp. to give up the ghost.
the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
noun. /ɡəʊst/ Idioms. [countable] the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear. Do you believe in ghosts (= believe that they exist)? ghost of somebody The ghost of her father had come back to haunt her. He looked as if he had seen a ghost (= looked very frightened) The ghost hunters have so far found nothing.
Ghost definition: The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.
the spirit of a dead person that appears to people who are alive: Do you believe in ghosts? a ghost story. ghostly. adjective. a ghostly figure. Idioms. give up the ghost. (Definition of ghost from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of ghost. in Chinese (Traditional) 鬼魂, 鬼，幽靈, 記憶… See more.
