ghost — OET · Shobdo

ghost

noun

1 it is said that his ghost still haunts the crypt:

spectre, phantom, wraith, spirit, soul, shadow, presence;

vision, apparition, hallucination;

Scottish, & Irish bodach;

German Doppelgänger;

West Indian duppy;

informal spook;

literary phantasm, shade, revenant, visitant, wight;

rare eidolon, manes, lemures.

2 she gave the ghost of a smile:

trace, hint, suggestion, impression, faint appearance, touch, suspicion, tinge, modicum, dash, soupçon;

glimmer, semblance, shadow, breath, whiff, undertone, whisper.

word links	ghost
phasmophobia fear of ghosts

ghost Oxford Dictionary of English