ghost

1. 1.

   move like a ghost

   “The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard”

   Broadertravel
2. 2.

   haunt like a ghost; pursue

   “Fear of illness haunts her”

   Synonymshauntobsess

   Broaderpreoccupy
3. 3.

   write for someone else

   “How many books have you ghostwritten so far?”

   Synonymsghostwrite

   Broaderauthor

   writing

Other forms of ghost

plural

ghosts·

past tense

ghosted·

present participle

ghosting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ghost

What does ghost mean?

ghost means "a mental representation of some haunting experience". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ghost?

ghost has 1 syllable: ghost. In IPA it is /ˈɡoʊst/.

What is another word for ghost?

Close synonyms include shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ghost a common word?

ghost is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.