ghost
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Is ghost a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Christianity, literary, chiefly archaic) A spirit; a human soul.Examples: "hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne."; "Enlightening the eyes and a taste for hope, emotions are felt from an inward ghost."; "If I thought that “I” referred to my inner ghost, I wouldn't be worried because a bullet can't hurt a ghost, and equally there would be no point in your shooting."Synonyms: essence, soul, spirit, animaarchaiccountableliteraryuncountable
2. (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.Examples: "."; "not a ghost of a chance"; "the ghost of an idea"Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, hint, inkling, phantom, spark, suggestionbroadlycountableuncountable
3. (writing) Ellipsis of ghostwriter.Examples: "I’ve written both as a ghost for experts and under my name."abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable
4. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.Examples: "This will let you open a query with NickServ again so you can remove your “ghost” from the server: […]"Internetcountableuncountable
5. (computing) A copy of a file or record.Synonyms: backupcountableuncountable
6. (theater) An understudy.countableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) In the form be ghost: not present or involved; absent, gone.Examples: "Thug held up a middle finger. "A'ight y'all. I'm ghost.""; "But I don't see no competition in the game and I'm pissing on it If it ain't about the family, then I'm ghost and that's a promise"not-comparableslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "since Julius Caesar, / Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted"literarypoetictransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space."literarypoetictransitive
3. (transitive)broadlyfigurativelytransitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "My recommendation: Do me. Don't take the chance that I'll get shiv-happy on your wannabe ass. Ghost me, Riddick. Would if I were you. Though I notice he tried to ghost my ass. When he shot up that stranger instead."; "He just ghosted two guys, and I never even saw him. Plan was to clean the bank, ghost the mercs, break wide through the tunnel."; "This may come as a shock to you, Johns, but I didn't ghost your son. He seemed set on killin' himself. Diaz was gonna take the nodes for himself and ghost me. He was gonna leave you out here alone."broadlyfigurativelyslangtransitive
5. (transitive)broadlyfigurativelytransitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "Whenever a menu or menu item is inappropriate or unavailable for selection, it should be ghosted. Never allow the user to select something that does nothing in response."broadlyfigurativelytransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary