Noun
- 1. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre, apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
- usage: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
- 2. apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre, spirit, disembodied spirit
- usage: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
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