ghostnoun
uk/ɡəʊst/us/ɡoʊst/ghost noun (SPIRIT)
B1 [ C ] the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that person that some people believe appears to people who are alive:
Do you believe in ghosts?
The gardens are said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who drowned in the river.
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- A headless ghost walks the castle at night - or so the story goes.
- According to tradition, a headless ghost walks through the corridors of the house at night.
- The Society for Psychical Research is investigating reports of a ghost at the old vicarage.
- Have you ever seen a ghost?
- There's no such thing as ghosts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Souls, spirits & ghosts
- apparition
- astral plane
- aura
- chi
- familiar
- ghostly
- haunt
- necromancy
- Ouija board
- phantom
- poltergeist
- possessed
- soul
- spectral
- spectre
- spirit
- spiritualism
- spook
- wraith
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ghost noun (MEMORY)
[ S ] literary a memory, usually of something or someone bad:
The ghost of the old dictator still lingers on.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Memory and memories
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- back
- clear
- corporate memory
- déjà vu
- eidetic
- flash
- flash back
- from memory idiom
- go
- live
- long memory
- nostalgia
- nostalgic
- off the top of your head idiom
- photographic memory
- remembrance
- rote
- within living memory idiom
- within your memory idiom
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Idiom(s)
give up the ghost
look like/as though you've seen a ghost
not have a/the ghost of a chance