Entry Word: ghost

Function: noun

Meaning: the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people <looked for ghosts in the graveyard on Halloween>

Synonyms apparition, bogey (also bogy or bogie), phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, vision, wraith

Related Words banshee, demon (or daemon), familiar (or familiar spirit), genie, imp, incubus, puck; vampire, zombie