English word senses marked with topical category "Ghosts"

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Total 51 word senses

• apparition (Noun) An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
• apparition (Noun) An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
• apparition (Noun) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
• apparition (Noun) 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) A supernatural creature, usually the ghost of a deceased person.
• bogey (Noun) A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
• chindee (Noun) Alternative form of chindi
• chindi (Noun) According to Navajo beliefs, a harmful ghost that leaves a person's body when they die and may remain around their possessions.
• churel (Noun) In Hindu folklore, the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth, pregnancy; or a witch.
• dobby (Noun) The children's game of tag.
• duppy (Noun) A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).
• dybbuk (Noun) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.
• fetch (Noun) 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) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
• ghost ship (Noun) An abandoned ship, or (science fiction, by extension) spaceship, that is haunted and possibly adrift.
• ghost story (Noun) A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
• ghostbuster (Noun) Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts.
• ghostbusting (Noun) The activities of a ghostbuster; exorcism of ghosts.
• ghosthunter (Noun) A person who attempts to track down ghosts.
• ghosthunting (Noun) Investigations that aim to track down ghosts.
• ghostling (Noun) A small, young, diminutive, or inferior ghost.
• ghostlore (Noun) A genre of folklore concerning ghosts.
• ghostly (Adjective) Spooky; frightening.
• ghostology (Noun) The knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.
• ghosty (Adjective) ghostly
• haint (Noun) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.
• haunt (Verb) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
• haunt (Verb) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
• haunt (Verb) To practise; to devote oneself to.
• haunt (Noun) A ghost.
• haunt (Noun) A lair or feeding place of animals.
• haunted (Adjective) Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
• haunted house (Noun) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted, house.
• jumbie (Noun) A ghost or evil spirit.
• lemures (Noun) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
• nightmarcher (Noun) 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) Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
• phantom (Noun) A ghost or apparition.
• poltergeist (Noun) An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
• revenant (Noun) A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
• shade (Noun) A ghost or specter; a spirit.
• specter (Noun) A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
• spirit (Noun) A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
• spook (Noun) A hobgoblin.
• spookological (Adjective) Relating to the study of ghosts.
• spooky (Adjective) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
• white lady (Noun) A female ghost dressed in white, who is associated with local legends of tragedy.
• white lady (Noun) 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) Methylated spirit.
• white lady (Noun) Heroin.
• wraith (Noun) A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

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