| ghost | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith | a mental representation of some haunting experience.; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" |
| ~ fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, apparition, shadow | something existing in perception only.; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" |
| n. (person) | 2. ghost, ghostwriter | a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else. |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (person) | 3. ghost | the visible disembodied soul of a dead person. |
| ~ poltergeist | a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder. |
| ~ revenant | someone who has returned from the dead. |
| ~ soul, psyche | the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life. |
| n. (communication) | 4. ghost, touch, trace | a suggestion of some quality.; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" |
| ~ proffer, proposition, suggestion | a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection.; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" |
| v. (motion) | 5. ghost | move like a ghost.; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (emotion) | 6. ghost, haunt, obsess | haunt like a ghost; pursue.; "Fear of illness haunts her" |
| ~ preoccupy | engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively.; "His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else" |
| v. (creation) | 7. ghost, ghostwrite | write for someone else.; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" |
| ~ authorship, penning, writing, composition | the act of creating written works.; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" |
| ~ author | be the author of.; "She authored this play" |
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