Betekenis van ghost In het Nederlands

• 0 the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image of that person that some people believe appears to people who are alive:

  • Do you believe in ghosts?

  • The gardens are said to be haunted by the ghost of a child who drowned in the river.

• 1 a memory, usually of something or someone bad:

  • The ghost of the old dictator still lingers on.

• 2 to write a book, article, etc. for another person to publish under their own name:

  • A writer friend of his was ghosting the autobiography of a jockey.

  • Most of Reagan's newspaper columns were ghosted for him.

• 3 to end a relationship with someone suddenly by stopping all communication with them:

  • Should I message her back or just ghost?

  • I couldn't understand why I'd been ghosted.

• 4 to move somewhere smoothly, quickly and quietly:

  • They slid through the big gate and ghosted across the park.

  • The big striker ghosted to the back post and scored.

• 5 the spirit of a dead person imagined as visiting the living and usually appearing as a pale, almost transparent form:

  • There are lots of stories about ghosts.