| Noun | 1. | ghost - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" | |
| 2. | ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone elseauthor, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | |
| 3. | ghost - the visible disembodied soul of a dead personpoltergeist - a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder revenant - someone who has returned from the dead soul, psyche - the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | |
| 4. | ghost - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" | |
| Verb | 1. | ghost - move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell" | |
| 2. | ghost - haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"preoccupy - engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; "His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completley--she cannot think of anything else" | |
| 3. | ghost - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"author - be the author of; "She authored this play" | |