ghosts

ghosts · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    Plural of ghost; spirits or souls of dead people believed to appear to the living.

  2. 2.

    Faint traces, memories, or remnants of past events or people.

  3. 3.

    (as verb) Third person singular present tense of ghost.

Related words

See also: ghost, haunted, spirits, supernatural
Synonyms: apparitions, phantoms, specters, spirits

Etymology

From Old English gast ("breath, spirit, soul") + English plural -s. The spelling with gh developed under Flemish influence.