ghost
A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after deathA disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
» I think I saw a ghost.
Кажется, я видел привидение.
Мені здається, я бачив привида.
Meaning
23 senses(countable, uncountable)A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.
He believes in ghosts.
Gespenst, Geist, Phantom
привиде́ниеprividénije, при́зракprízrak, фанто́мfantóm
при́видprývyd, прима́раprymára, мара́mará
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
(broadly, countable, uncountable)Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
not a ghost of a chance
the ghost of an idea
Schatten
ма́ревоmárevo, мара́mará, фанто́мfantóm
(countable, uncountable)A false image, for example in a photographic print or negative, or on a television screen or radar display, or in a telescope, caused by poor or double reception or reflection (from a lens or screen).
Geisterbild
артефа́ктartefákt
(countable, slang, uncountable)A faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
(countable, uncountable)A nonexistent person invented to obtain some (typically fraudulent) benefit.
(countable, uncountable)A dead person whose identity is stolen by another (see ghosting).
(Internet, countable, uncountable)An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
(countable, uncountable)A copy of a file or record.
(countable, uncountable)An understudy.
(countable, uncountable)A covert (and deniable) agent.
(countable, uncountable)An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
(countable, uncountable)Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of such a person.
Examples
755 sentencesI think I saw a ghost.
Мені здається, я бачив привида. — deniko
ruКажется, я видел привидение. — marafon
Tom claims he's seen a ghost.
Том стверджує, що бачив привида. — deniko
Tom says he saw a ghost.
Том каже, що бачив привида. — deniko
Are you sure it was a ghost?
Ти впевнений, що це привид? — cbc_yall
ruВы уверены, что это был призрак? — odexed
Tom claims that he's seen a ghost.
Том стверджує, що бачив привида. — deniko
Translations
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Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spiritThe noun is derived from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
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Forms
plural: ghostsSynonyms
27 synonymsWord family
208 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- afraid of ghosts
- believe in ghosts
- seen a ghost
- saw a ghost
- ghosts exist
- that ghosts exist
- can see ghosts
- ghost stories
- believe that ghosts
- a ghost in
- see ghosts
- were a ghost