1. The visible disembodied soul of a dead person
   "The old mansion was rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner"
    
2. A mental representation of some haunting experience
   "he looked like he had seen a ghost";
   - shade, spook, wraith, specter [US], spectre [Brit, Cdn]
    
3. A suggestion of some quality
   "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face";
   - touch, trace
    
4. A writer who authors books, articles, or speeches for another person who is named as the author
   "The celebrity hired a ghost to pen her autobiography";
   - ghostwriter
    
5. A faint false image formed in an optical or display device, e.g. by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses
   "The old TV produced a ghost image that overlapped the main picture"

1. Haunt like a ghost; pursue
   "Memories of the accident ghosted him for years";
   - haunt, obsess
    
2. Move like a ghost
   "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
    
3. Write for someone else
   "She ghosted several celebrity autobiographies";
   - ghostwrite
    
4. End a personal relationship by stopping all contact without explanation
   "a way to reduce the chances of being ghosted is to only date people that you get to know in person first"

Derived forms: ghosts, ghosting, ghosted

Type of: apparition, author, fantasm, go, locomote, move, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, preoccupy, proffer, proposition, psyche, shadow, soul, suggestion, travel, writer

Encyclopedia: Ghost, Interrupted