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say it: POHL-tur-gahyst
poltergeist is a noun meaning "a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder". It is pronounced /ˈpoʊltɚˌɡaɪst/ — POHL-tur-gahyst. It carries one recorded sense.
a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poltergeist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.