ghost
gohst
- 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?
- A vessel in a fleet of controversial former US Navy 'ghost ships' arrives at a Hartlepool breakers' yard.
- In modern-day Yemen, in an area with people genetically linked to the Lemba, Parfitt found a ghost town by that name.
- Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may .