Tra từ ghost - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ghost [ghost ghosts ghosted ghosting] noun, verb BrE [ɡəʊst] NAmE [ɡoʊst]
noun
1. countable the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear
•Do you believe in ghosts (= believe that they exist)?
•the ghost of her father that had come back to haunt her
•He looked as if he had seen a ghost (= looked very frightened).
2. countable the memory of sth, especially sth bad
•The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe.
3. singular ~ of sth a very slight amount of sth that is left behind or that you are not sure really exists
•There was a ghost of a smile on his face.
•You don't have a ghost of a chance (= you have no chance).
4. singular a second image on a television screen that is not as clear as the first, caused by a fault
more at be a shadow/ghost of your former self at ↑former

Word Origin:
Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest.

Thesaurus:
ghost noun C
•Do you believe in ghosts?
spirit • |especially written apparition •
see a/an ghost/spirit/apparition
a/an ghost/spirit/apparition haunts sth
a ghost/spirit appears

Example Bank:
•A priest was called in to exorcize the ghost.
•He looked as pale as a ghost as he climbed out of the wrecked car.
•I don't believe in ghosts.
•The ghost of a hanged man is said to haunt the house.
•You look as if you've seen a ghost!
•dark, cold nights when ghosts walk
•Do you believe in ghosts?
•He looked as if he had seen a ghost.
•It was the ghost of her father that had come back to haunt her.
•We used to sit around the campfire telling ghost stories.
Idiom: ↑give up the ghost

verb
1. = ↑ghostwrite
2. intransitive + adv./prep. (literary)to move without making a sound
•They ghosted up the smooth waters of the river.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest.