2006-10-01 14:33:50 · 9 answers · asked by colin050659 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Main Entry: 1ghost
Pronunciation: 'gOst
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gAst; akin to Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit heda anger
1 : the seat of life or intelligence : SOUL
2 : a disembodied soul; especially : the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness
3 : SPIRIT, DEMON
4 a : a faint shadowy trace b : the least bit
5 : a false image in a photographic negative or on a television screen caused especially by reflection
6 : one who ghostwrites
7 : a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin
- ghost·like /-"lIk/ adjective
- ghosty /'gO-stE/ adjective
2006-10-01 14:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by onlyonemeg 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A ghost is an alleged non-corporeal manifestation of a dead person (or, rarely, an animal or vehicle). It is often thought to be a manifestation of the spirit or soul of a person which has remained on Earth after death.
2006-10-01 21:57:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.
The center of spiritual life; the soul.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English gost, from Old English gst, breath, spirit
2006-10-01 21:39:16 · answer #3 · answered by Wicked 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A dead person returning to the world of the living in the same body he/she had when alive in the living world- i.e not using the disguise of a living person ; to the living such a person would really look like what West Indians term/call " DUPPIES"
2006-10-02 02:35:28 · answer #4 · answered by skeetejacquelinelightersnumber7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well in that type theres two things you need two know.......a ghost means a person that dont know there dead.and will repeat what they normally do over and over agin doing the same exact thing....... a spirit knows there dead hence why they seem to know you saw them kinda wierd a? i hope that helped
2006-10-01 21:40:25 · answer #5 · answered by RIKKI N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two words: disembodied soul
2006-10-01 22:08:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a person who is dead and who has left his body who usaully haunts osmeone or something like a castle.
2006-10-01 21:58:30 · answer #7 · answered by Mer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a dead person made of weird foggy undead stuff.
thats how i would define it anyways lol.
2006-10-01 21:53:14 · answer #8 · answered by babybone1991 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-10-01 21:45:13 · answer #9 · answered by GB123 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋