"ghost" meaning in Englisch

See ghost in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: ɡəʊst, ɡəʊsts Audio: En-us-ghost.ogg , En-us-ghosts.ogg Forms: the ghost [singular], the ghosts [plural]
Etymology: altenglisch gāst von germanisch *ghoizdoz (deutsch Geist, niederländisch geest ^(→ nl)) von indogermanisch *ghois- „aufgeregt, erschrocken sein“
  1. Geist, Gespenst, Verstorbener
    Sense id: de-ghost-en-noun-1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: soul, spirit, apparition Derived forms: ghostlike, ghostliness, ghostly, ghost story, ghost town, ghost-write, ghost-writer Translations (Geist, Gespenst, Verstorbener): Geist [masculine] (Deutsch), Gespenst [neuter] (Deutsch), Verstorbener [masculine] (Deutsch)

Inflected forms

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