· a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

Synonym(s): shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre

Hypernym(s): apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow

· a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Synonym(s): ghostwriter

Hypernym(s): writer, author

· the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

Hypernym(s): soul, psyche

· a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

Synonym(s): touch, trace

Hypernym(s): suggestion, proposition, proffer

· move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

Hypernym(s): travel, go, move, locomote

· haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"

Synonym(s): haunt, obsess

Hypernym(s): preoccupy

· write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

Synonym(s): ghostwrite

Hypernym(s): author