The disembodied spirit of a deceased person (or occasionally an animal) regarded as a separate entity and invested with some degree of…

concrete. An apparition, a phantasm. Obsolete.

The soul or spirit of a dead person or animal, conceived of as appearing in visible form or otherwise manifesting in the physical world, typically…

A spectral apparition, phantom; an illusory appearance. Obs.

An incorporeal, supernatural, rational being, of a type usually regarded as imperceptible to humans but capable of becoming visible at will, and…

A thing (usually with human form) that appears to the sight or other sense, but has no material substance; an apparition, a spectre, a ghost. Also…

An apparition, spirit, or ghost; a visible but incorporeal being. Now archaic and rare.

One who or that which haunts, in various senses; a frequenter.

A spectral form, phantom; = shade, n. 6.

That which appears without being material; a phantom or apparition.

An apparition or spectre of a dead person; a phantom or ghost.

A frightening apparition or creature, esp. a ghost. Obsolete.

A special kind of spectre or phantom.

A phantasm or spectre. Obsolete. rare.

A condition of being or seeming to be neither alive nor dead, a phantom state between life and death; (in extended use) something having the form or…

= phantasm, n. (in various senses).

The shade of a deceased person; a phantom or ghost. Also figurative.

= larva, n. 1.

An apparition, phantom, or ghost, esp. one of a terrifying nature or aspect.

An apparition or phantom; a spectre.

spec. An immaterial appearance as of a real being; a spectre, phantom, or ghost. (The ordinary current sense.)

A spectre, phantom. rare.

concrete. An imaginary, spectral, or ethereal form; a phantom. Now rare.

A phantom, a vision, an apparition. Obsolete.

An image or unsubstantial appearance; a spectre or phantom; a mental image, an idea.

A disembodied spirit; a ghost, hobgoblin, spectre. Obsolete exc. Historical.

Newfoundland. The name of a spirit or ghost. Obsolete. rare.

Chiefly in West and South-west African (esp. Angolan) contexts: the ghost or spirit of a dead person, esp. a malevolent one. Occasionally also Car…

The ghost or spirit of a dead person, esp. a malevolent one. Cf. duppy, n. zombie, n. 1.

A name among black West Indians for a ghost or spirit.

An apparition, wraith. = waft, n.1 7.

In parts of the Caribbean (esp. Haiti) and the southern United States: the ghost or spirit of a dead person, esp. a malevolent one. Cf. zumbi, n., j…

a phantom huntsman of Teutonic legend, fabled to ride at night through the fields and woods with shouts and baying of hounds.

A spectre, apparition, ghost. Often somewhat jocular or colloquial.

A ghost.

An evil spirit, a ghost.

The disembodied soul of a dead person, esp. before the completion of funeral rites and ceremonies allowing it to leave the world of humans as an…

A peasant, churl; also (Scottish) a spectre.

A person who returns from the dead; a reanimated corpse; a ghost. Also figurative.

(a) an apparition or double of a living person that is superstitiously believed to portend the person's death; (b) a spirit supposed to come and…

A formless, luminous spectre. Chiefly in the writings of W. B. Yeats.

U.S. regional and English regional. A spirit supposed to haunt a place; a ghost. Also (occasionally) in wider use.

(a) Caribbean (Barbados and Guyana) a bat; (b) now literary a ghost, a bogey; (c) chiefly Jamaican, a large night-flying moth.

a phantasm; ghostliness.

A ghost, apparition, or spectre.

Originally Scottish. A frightening supernatural creature or spirit; a ghost, hobgoblin, or bogey; a monster.

(in the context of spiritualism and shamanism) the soul of a human or animal that animates the body but can exist and travel separately from it, as…

A mound of earth or stones erected in early times over a grave; a grave-mound, a tumulus. Also attributive as barrow-wight n. (see quot. 1891); so…

A person who has risen from the dead.

An apparition, wraith. Cf. waff, n. 5.

In India, the ghost of a woman who has died in child-birth, believed to haunt lonely places malevolently and to spread disease.

A person who has returned; (also) a ghost. rare.