ghost
– noun
1. the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
2. a mere shadow or semblance; a trace.
3. a remote possibility.
4. a spiritual being.
5. the principle of life; soul; spirit.
6. ghost writer.
7. a secondary image, esp. one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
8. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
9. an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
10. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
11. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
12. a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
13. a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated esp. for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes.
– verb
14. to haunt.
15. to lighten the background before engraving.
16. to move when there is no perceptible wind.
17. to pay people for work not performed, esp. as a way of manipulating funds.
–adj.
18. fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud.
spir·it
– noun
1. the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
2. the incorporeal part of humans.
3. the soul regarded as separating from the body at death.
4. conscious, incorporeal being, as opposed to matter.
5. a supernatural, incorporeal being, esp. one inhabiting a place, object, etc., or having a particular character.
6. a fairy, sprite, or elf.
7. an angel or demon.
8. an attitude or principle that inspires, animates, or pervades thought, feeling, or action.
9. the divine influence as an agency working in the human heart.
10. a divine, inspiring, or animating being or influence.
11. the third person of the Trinity.
12. the soul or heart as the seat of feelings or sentiments, or as prompting to action.
13. spirits, feelings or mood with regard to exaltation or depression.
14. excellent disposition or attitude in terms of vigor, courage, firmness of intent, etc.; mettle.
15. temper or disposition: meek in spirit.
16. an individual as characterized by a given attitude, disposition, character, action, etc.
17. the dominant tendency or character of anything.
18. vigorous sense of membership in a group.
19. the general meaning or intent of a statement, document, etc.
20. the essence or active principle of a substance as extracted in liquid form, esp. by distillation.
21. a strong distilled alcoholic liquor.
22. a solution in alcohol of an essential or volatile principle; essence.
23. any of certain subtle fluids formerly supposed to permeate the body.
24. god.
– adj.
25. pertaining to something that works by burning alcoholic spirits.
26. of or pertaining to spiritualist bodies or activities.
– verb
27. to animate with fresh ardor or courage; inspirit.
28. to encourage; urge on or stir up, as to action.
29. to carry off mysteriously or secretly.
god
– noun
1. the creator and ruler of the universe.
2. the supreme being considered with reference to a particular attribute.
3. one of several deities, presiding over some portion of worldly affairs.
4. a supreme being according to some particular conception.
5. an image of a deity; an idol.
6. any deified person or object.
– verb
7. to regard or treat as a god; deify; idolize.
an·gel
– noun
1. one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of god. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
2. a conventional representation of such a being, in human form, with wings, usually in white robes.
3. a messenger, esp. of god.
4. a person who performs a mission of god or acts as if sent by god.
5. a person having qualities generally attributed to an angel, as beauty, purity, or kindliness.
6. a person whose actions and thoughts are consistently virtuous.
7. an attendant or guardian spirit.
8. a deceased person whose soul is regarded as having been accepted into heaven.
de·mon
– noun
1. an evil spirit; devil or fiend.
2. an evil passion or influence.
3. a person considered extremely wicked, evil, or cruel.
4. a person with great energy, drive, etc.
5. a person, esp. a child, who is very mischievous.
dev·il
– noun
1. a. the supreme spirit of evil; Satan.
b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with god, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
2. an atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered person.
3. a person who is very clever, energetic, reckless, or mischievous.
4. a person, usually one in unfortunate or pitiable circumstances.
5. a young worker below the level of apprentice in a printing office.
6. any of various mechanical devices, as a machine for tearing rags, a machine for manufacturing wooden screws, etc.
7. any of various portable furnaces or braziers used in construction and foundry work.
fiend
– noun
1. Satan; the devil.
2. any evil spirit; demon.
3. a diabolically cruel or wicked person.
4. a person or thing that causes mischief or annoyance.
5. a person who is extremely addicted to some pernicious habit.
6. a person who is excessively interested in some game, sport, etc.; fan; buff.
7. a person who is highly skilled or gifted in something.
heav·en
– noun
1. the abode of god, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life.
2. the celestial powers.
3. a metonym for god.
4. the sky, firmament, or expanse of space surrounding the earth.
5. a place or state of supreme happiness.
hell
– noun
1. the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
2. any place or state of torment or misery.
3. something that causes torment or misery.
4. the powers of evil.
5. the abode of the dead; Sheol or Hades.
6. extreme disorder or confusion; chaos