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(n)
A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
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A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]
British standard spelling of specter.
(informal) A scare or fright.
A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
(v)
(transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
(authorship, transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
An act of tracing.
A ghost or apparition.
The soul of a person or other creature.
A male magic-user; a male witch; a wizard.
(theology) The chief devil; Satan.
An evil supernatural spirit.
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
Imagination; fancy.
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
The capability for rational thought.
A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
(also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
An image inserted into text.
(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
An imaginary creature reputed to be mischievously inclined, for example, to damage or dismantle machinery.
Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.
A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
Hatred.
The act of killing.
(anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
(uncountable, figurative) Flamboyance, energetic style or action.
(uncountable) Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.
A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
A phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.
Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
(parapsychology) An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
(US, dialectal) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.
(Scotland, Ireland, folklore) A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
(mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.
One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians.
(adj)
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
(diminutive, childish or endearing) Alternative form of ghosty. [(rare) A ghost, especially a diminutive one.]
Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
The quality of being ghostly.
(N)
a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
(voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
A remarkably similar double.
An urban professional suffering from depression, especially one who has lost a high-paying job and been forced to take up lower-paying work.
(Caribbean, Jamaica) A ghost or spirit, often appearing in the form of a dog barking or howling through the night.
an American comedy horror film series that consists of four films released from 1985 to 1994.
A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
A ghost; a spirit that haunts.
(usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal.
(fandom slang) A fan of the rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
(with the) Paranormal phenomenona collectively: all things paranormal; things with paranormality.
The traditional male costume in Bhutan, consisting of a knee-length robe tied at the waist by a cloth belt.
(fantasy) A malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantom (“apparition or ghost”); ghostly, spectral.
(parapsychology) A visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.
Fascinated by corpses; morbid.
A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
Without a head (body part).
a platform game written by David Hoskins and published in the UK by Micro Power.
a 2010 South Korean science fiction action film written and directed by Kim Min-seok.
(horror and fantasy fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
Of, or pertaining to, spectra; classified according to frequency or wavelength (of light etc.).
A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.
(uncountable) Supernatural beings and events collectively (when used with definite article: "the supernatural")
(religion, forteana) Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions
(cryptozoology, ufology) A legendary creature, regarded as a cryptid or alien, reportedly seen in West Virginia in the mid-1960s.