0 a word in a dictionary or another list of words that is not a real word and is usually there because of a mistake: --
In 1940, bound books began appearing without the ghost word but with a new abbreviation (although inspection of printed copies well into the 1940s show dord still present).
He also coined the term ghost word and was a leading expert in this treacherous and difficult subject.
Translating "kui" as walrus exemplifies a ghost word.
The latter is a ghost word, escalated to a level of meta-category through historical accident and the inertia of intellectual prescription.
If that story is true, then the name is a material example of a ghost word.
Ghost words may be misprints or mispronunciations.
Wherever words are arranged in lists, ghost words may occasionally appear.
There are scores of ghost words in dictionaries.
