ghost noun (SPIRIT)
B1 [ C ] the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that person that some people believe appears to people who are alive:
Do you believe in ghosts?
More examples
- A headless ghost walks the castle at night - or so the story goes.
- According to tradition, a headless ghost walks through the corridors of the house at night.
- The Society for Psychical Research is investigating reports of a ghost at the old vicarage.
- Have you ever seen a ghost?
- There's no such thing as ghosts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
ghost noun (MEMORY)
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- clear
- corporate memory
- flash
- flash back
- from memory idiom
- go down
- haunting
- live
- long memory
- memory
- nostalgia
- nostalgic
- off the top of your head idiom
- photographic memory
- remembrance
- rote
- to the best of my recollection idiom
- within living memory idiom
- within your memory idiom
