ghost
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a mental representation of some haunting experience
he looked like he had seen a ghost
Types & categories
- phantom hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
move like a ghost
The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
- ghost derivation
Sense 3 noun
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Types & categories
- author hypernym
Related & opposite
- ghostwrite derivation
Sense 4 verb
haunt like a ghost; pursue
Fear of illness haunts her
Types & categories
- preoccupy hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
Types & categories
- soul hypernym
- poltergeist hyponym
- revenant hyponym
Related & opposite
- ghost derivation
- apparitional derivation
Sense 6 verb
write for someone else
How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
Types & categories
- author hypernym
Related & opposite
- ghostwriter derivation
- authorship domain topic
Sense 7 noun
a suggestion of some quality
there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
Types & categories
- proffer hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | obsess |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | spook |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | phantom |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghost |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghostwrite |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | author |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fixation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghost |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | preoccupy |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghost |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | apparitional |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | soul |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | poltergeist |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | revenant |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | ghostwriter |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | authorship |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | author |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | proffer |