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Total 89 word senses

• apparition (Noun) [English] An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
• apparition (Noun) [English] An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
• apparition (Noun) [English] The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
• apparition (Noun) [English] A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
• bhoot (Noun) [English] A supernatural creature, usually the ghost of a deceased person.
• bogey (Noun) [English] A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
• caça-fantasma (Noun) [Portuguese] ghosthunter; ghostbuster
• chindee (Noun) [English] Alternative form of chindi
• chindi (Noun) [English] According to Navajo beliefs, a harmful ghost that leaves a person's body when they die and may remain around their possessions.
• churel (Noun) [English] In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth, pregnancy; or a witch.
• dobby (Noun) [English] The children's game of tag.
• duppy (Noun) [English] A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).
• dybbuk (Noun) [English] A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
• fetch (Noun) [English] The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
• ghost (Noun) [English] The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
• ghost ship (Noun) [English] An abandoned ship, or (science fiction, by extension) spaceship, that is haunted and possibly adrift.
• ghost story (Noun) [English] A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
• ghostbuster (Noun) [English] Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts.
• ghostbusting (Noun) [English] The activities of a ghostbuster; exorcism of ghosts.
• ghosthunter (Noun) [English] A person who attempts to track down ghosts.
• ghosthunting (Noun) [English] Investigations that aim to track down ghosts.
• ghostling (Noun) [English] A small, young, diminutive, or inferior ghost.
• ghostlore (Noun) [English] A genre of folklore concerning ghosts.
• ghostly (Adjective) [English] Spooky; frightening.
• ghostology (Noun) [English] The knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.
• ghosty (Adjective) [English] ghostly
• gui (Noun) [Wutunhua] ghost
• haint (Noun) [English] A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.
• haunt (Verb) [English] To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
• haunt (Verb) [English] To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
• haunt (Verb) [English] To practise; to devote oneself to.
• haunt (Noun) [English] A ghost.
• haunt (Noun) [English] A lair or feeding place of animals.
• haunted (Adjective) [English] Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
• haunted house (Noun) [English] Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted, house.
• isiporho (Noun) [Xhosa] ghost
• jumbie (Noun) [English] A ghost or evil spirit.
• lemures (Noun) [English] The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
• nightmarcher (Noun) [English] In Hawaiian folklore, a ghost of an ancient Hawaiian warrior who marches together with other such ghosts on certain sacred nights from their burial sites or the ocean to the sites of ancient battles or sacred places.
• phantasm (Noun) [English] Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
• phantom (Noun) [English] A ghost or apparition.
• poltergeist (Noun) [English] An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
• revenant (Noun) [English] A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
• shade (Noun) [English] A ghost or specter; a spirit.
• specter (Noun) [English] A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
• spirit (Noun) [English] A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
• spook (Noun) [English] A hobgoblin.
• spook (Noun) [Afrikaans] ghost, phantom
• spook (Noun) [Dutch] spectre, horror, terror
• spook (Noun) [Dutch] an imaginary horror, conceptual nightmare
• spookological (Adjective) [English] Relating to the study of ghosts.
• spooky (Adjective) [English] Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
• strah (Noun) [Slovene] horror, unpleasantness^([→SSKJ])
• white lady (Noun) [English] A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
• white lady (Noun) [English] A sour cocktail made with gin or crème de menthe, triple sec or Cointreau, and a citrus juice, sometimes with an egg white.
• white lady (Noun) [English] Methylated spirit.
• white lady (Noun) [English] Heroin.
• wraith (Noun) [English] A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
• 𑀧𑁂𑀅 (Noun) [Prakrit] a ghost
• 亡霊 (Noun) [Japanese] a ghost; an apparition
• 変化 (Noun) [Japanese] goblin, ghost; an apparition
• 妖魔 (Noun) [Japanese] ghost; apparition; monster; demon
• 幽霊 (Noun) [Japanese] a ghost, a phantom
• 幽霊 (Noun) [Okinawan] ghost
• 幽鬼 (Noun) [Japanese] a ghost; a demonic poltergeist
• 怨霊 (Noun) [Japanese] a ghost, particularly a vengeful or malevolent one
• 死霊 (Noun) [Japanese] spirit of the dead, ghost, departed soul
• 死霊 (Noun) [Japanese] spirit of the dead, ghost, departed soul
• 物の怪 (Noun) [Japanese] a ghost, a specter, an evil spirit
• ра̄вэшк (Noun) [Kildin Sami] small ghost
• ра̄вэшк (Noun) [Kildin Sami] the carcass, carrion of an animal
• ра̄вэшк (Noun) [Kildin Sami] skeleton
• お化け (Noun) [Japanese] apparition, specter, ghost
• กระสือ (Noun) [Thai] a type of turmeric that resembles zedoary, traditionally believed to be of a supernatural power to possess a woman like the said spirit.
• กุมาร (Noun) [Thai] child ghost servant, created by surgically removing an unborn baby from the womb of its mother, roasting the baby until its body dries during a rite held at a graveyard, and covering the dry-roasted corpse with gold leaf. The corpse is carried by someone who believes that the ghost dwelling in it may be employed.
• ฉมบ (Noun) [Thai] a type of spirit in Thai folklore, believed to be the ghost of a woman that dwells at the place of her death, especially in a forest.
• ตายทั้งกลม (Verb) [Thai] to die together with the child or children in her womb.
• ทางสามแพร่ง (Noun) [Thai] T-junction, traditionally believed to be employed by the dead and thus deemed a very unholy spot.
• ปอบ (Noun) [Thai] a type of evil spirit in Thai folklore, believed to possess a person and devour his or her viscera before leaving, thus causing the person to die.
• ผีดิบ (Noun) [Thai] preternatural being believed to be a reanimated corpse, such as vampire, zombie, etc.
• พราย (Noun) [Thai] a type of imaginary creature, conceived of as inhabiting the rivers, mountains, trees, etc, as nymph, elf, naiad, etc.
• สมิง (Noun) [Thai] a type of evil spirit in Thai folklore, believed to be a person that turns into a tiger by the power of black magic or a tiger that can transform itself into a human due to being possessed by the ghosts of its human preys.
• เปรต (Noun) [Thai] preta: a type of supernatural creature born to undergo punishment or suffering as a result of sinful deeds committed in previous lives.
• โขมด (Noun) [Thai] gleaming light seen at night, traditionally believed to be a type of nocturnal ghost that leads travellers astray, scientifically explained to be light naturally produced by methane.
• โสม (Noun) [Thai] Jewels of Opar, flameflower (Talinum paniculatum, family Portulacaceae)
• โสม (Noun) [Thai] sweetheart (Talinum fruticosum, family Portulacaceae).
• โสม (Noun) [Thai] any of the various plants of the genus Panax (family Araliaceae).
• โสม (Noun) [Thai] a kind of beverage made from the juice of an ivy plant mixed with clarified butter, traditionally offered to Indra and other gods.
• ܛܠܢܝܬܐ (Noun) [Assyrian Neo-Aramaic] specter/spectre, in Assyrian folklore a genus of ghost or supernatural creatures resembling humans, said to live human-like lives, and are not inherently good or evil

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