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Definition of Ghost

Ghost The spirit; the soul of man. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. To die; to expire. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. Related Definitions: After, An, Any, Apparition, Appear, Appearing, As, By, Chance, Death, Deceased, Die, Disembodied, Expire, Faint, False, Form, Formed, From, Ghost, Glimmering, Haunt, Idea, Image, In, Lenses, Man, More, Not, Of, One, Or, Person, Phantom, Reflection, Semblance, Shadowy, Soul, Specter, Spirit, Telescope, The, To, Unsubstantial

Ghost Quotations An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles Dickens No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. Thomas Carlyle If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. H. L. Mencken The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Francis Bacon

Ghost Translations ghost in Afrikaans is gees, spook ghost in Dutch is blinde, blinde bij kaarspel, geest ghost in French is revenant ghost in German is Geist, Gespenst, Geist ghost in Italian is fantasma ghost in Latin is phasma phasmatis

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