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Meaning of ghost

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  ghost
      n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he
           looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from
           his past" [syn: {ghost}, {shade}, {spook}, {wraith},
           {specter}, {spectre}]
      2: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
         [syn: {ghostwriter}, {ghost}]
      3: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
      4: a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm
         in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
         [syn: {touch}, {trace}, {ghost}]
      v 1: move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the
           moonlit yard"
      2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
         [syn: {haunt}, {obsess}, {ghost}]
      3: write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten
         so far?" [syn: {ghost}, {ghostwrite}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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