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Here are real-life examples of using "ghost": Strange to say, he saw the ghost of his father. Sure enough, the ghost appeared on the balcony.

Ghost Meaning

/ɡəʊst/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

nounA spirit; a human soul.

Sentence Examples

Strange to say, he saw the ghost of his father.

Sure enough, the ghost appeared on the balcony.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

haunt obsess specter

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

They thought they saw a ____ in the old, empty house.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The old legends say that the ____ of the captain still haunts the lighthouse on foggy autumn nights.

Word Origin & History

The noun is derived from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). The h in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton’s Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the “Holy Ghoost”. It was likely influenced by Middle Dutch gheest, a common variant of geest. Both Caxton and his assistant Wynkyn de Worde had connections to the Low Countries. Doublet of geist. The adjective and verb are derived from the noun. The verb gained prominence in the 2010s. cognates * Danish gast (“ghost”), gejst (“enthusiasm”) * Dutch geest (“ghost, spirit”) * German Geist (“ghost, spirit”) * Luxembourgish Geescht (“ghost, spirit, spectre, phantom”) * Saterland Frisian Gäist, Jeest (“ghost, spirit”) * Scots gaist, ghaist (“ghost”) * Swedish gast (“ghost”) * Vilamovian gȧjst (“ghost, spirit”) * West Frisian geast (“ghost, spirit”) * Yiddish גײַסט (gayst, “ghost, spirit”) * Yola gaast (“ghost”)

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose." — 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

"I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost" — 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:

"For a moment I was puzzled, but presently, of course, it struck me that he must have seen Ayesha, wrapped in her grave-like garment, and been deceived by the extraordinary undulating smoothness of her walk into a belief that she was a white ghost gliding towards him." — 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

"Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all." — 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

"hen gins her grieued ghost thus to lament and mourne." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31:

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