Main Entry:

¹ghost

Pronunciation:

\ˈgōst\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gāst; akin to Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit heḍa anger

Date:

before 12th century

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 likeness3: spirit, demon4 a: a faint shadowy trace <a ghost of a smile> b: the least bit <not a ghost of a chance>5: a false image in a photographic negative or on a television screen caused especially by reflection6: one who ghostwrites7: a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin

— ghost·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective

— ghosty \ˈgō-stē\ adjective