ghent
- n port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
gherkin
- n any of various small cucumbers pickled whole
- n small prickly cucumber
ghetto
- n formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live
the Warsaw ghetto - n any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping
the relative security of the gay ghetto
no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool - n a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
ghillie
- n a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep
ghost
- n a mental representation of some haunting experience
he looked like he had seen a ghost - n a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
- n the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- n a suggestion of some quality
he detected a ghost of a smile on her face - v move like a ghost
The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard - v haunt like a ghost; pursue
- v write for someone else
How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
ghost dance
- n a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead
ghost gum
- n small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips
ghost town
- n a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)
ghost weed
- n annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk
ghost word
- n a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error
ghostfish
- n eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
ghostliness
- n strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
ghostwriter
- n a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else