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Meaning of "ghost word" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GHOST WORD

ghost word play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GHOST WORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ghost word is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GHOST WORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ghost word

A ghost word is a word that is published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work having rarely, if ever, been used in practice. This is generally a result of an error, such as a misinterpretation, mispronunciation, misreading, or typographical or linguistic confusion. Once authoritatively published, a ghost word may occasionally be widely copied and take a long time to be erased from usage especially if the work is published using a free license which encourages its promulgation.

Definition of ghost word in the English dictionary

The definition of ghost word in the dictionary is a word that has entered the language through the perpetuation, in dictionaries, etc, of an error.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GHOST WORD

ghost car
ghost dance
ghost edition
ghost estate
ghost fishing
ghost gum
ghost image
ghost moth
ghost prisoner
ghost story
ghost town
ghost train
ghost writer
ghostlier
ghostliest
ghostlike
ghostliness
ghostly
ghostwrite
ghostwriting

WORDS THAT END LIKE GHOST WORD

at a word
buzz word
code word
content word
dirty word
entry word
four-letter word
full word
household word
in a word
keyword
mum´s the word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
reserved word
root word
the last word
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of ghost word in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ghost word» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GHOST WORD

Find out the translation of ghost word to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ghost word from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ghost word» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鬼字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

palabra fantasma
570 millions of speakers

English

ghost word
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूत शब्द
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كلمة شبح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

призрак слово
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

palavra fantasma
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভুত শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mot fantôme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata hantu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Geister Wort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ゴースト·ワード
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유령 단어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ghost word
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

từ ma
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேய் வார்த்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भूत शब्द
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hayalet söz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parola fantasma
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

słowo duch
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

привид слово
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cuvânt fantomă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λέξη φάντασμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spook woord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ghost ord
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ghost ord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ghost word

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GHOST WORD»

The term «ghost word» is used very little and occupies the 184.406 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GHOST WORD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ghost word» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ghost word» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ghost word

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GHOST WORD»

Discover the use of ghost word in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ghost word and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Transactions of the Philological Society
"Celtic Philology 1880-1886," Dr. R. Thurneysen's Report on, 385 el sea. char, a ghost-word, 363. charter, etymology of, 78. Chaucer, specimens of errors in modern editions of, 362. chaudron 'entrails,' derivation of, 692. cheat, explanation of, ...
Philological Society (Great Britain), 1887
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The Mystery of the Alamo Ghost Teacher's Guide
Companion teacher's guide to the Mystery of the Alamo Ghost.
Carole Marsh, 2002
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The Ghost in the Word
The central idea in The Ghost in the Word is to remind scientists, and poets, that ambiguity is the lifeblood and basis of both science and poetry. Stewart's fourth collection contains 60 new poems.
Arthur J. Stewart, 2013
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Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance. Papers in ...
JOHN CHADWICK Downing College, Cambridge The term 'ghost-word' was invented by T.Skeat in 18661 to describe a word which has currency in lexica, but was never in actual use in the language. Such words most often arise by mistake,  ...
Bela Brogyanyi, Reiner Lipp, 1992
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Glossary of Hindi/Urdu and English linguistic terminology : ...
... parenthetical word (BPU 1987: 140); rabitah -, link word (BPU 1987: 1 12); rabifi-, link word (BPU 1987: 208); sahvT -, ghost word (BPU 1987: 205), phantom word (BPU 1987: 205), vox nihili (BPU 1987: 205); sar -, head word (BPU 1987: 86, ...
Umberto Nardella, 2008
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Lies My Preachers Told Me: The Bible's Doctrine on Marriage ...
Matthew 12:31-32 “Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall beforgiven unto men: but [the blasphemy] against the Holy Ghost (Word of God—cf. Hebrews 3:7-11 with Psalm 95:7-11) shall not be forgiven unto men.
Ephraim Israel
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Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality
... what he calls “thy commandment” and “my word,” (1.5.102;110) – the Ghost's word of command, “his speech, the word (le mot), let us say of his authority”, the place reserved for “the Name-of-the-Father in the shakespeare's ghost writers 178.
Marjorie Garber, William R Kenan Jr Professor of English Marjorie Garber, 2010
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Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index
Matheson, Lister (1983): The Middle English Verb sane: A Probable Ghost Word', N&Q22S, 199-202. Matheson claims that the ME verb sane exists as a result of editorial misreadings of saue, a common orthographic variation of the verb save,  ...
Louise Sylvester, Jane Annette Roberts, 2000
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Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Your Text
Ghost- Word even has a command-line interface. Figure 3-42. The GhostWord interface GhostWord can add bookmarks, links, metadata, and display settings to a PDF. It also manages your Ghostscript settings. Select a hardcoded Ghost- ...
Andrew Savikas, 2004
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Concise English Dictionary
... ghost'y- — ghost'-story a story in which ghosts figure; ghost town one which once flourished owing to some natural resource in the vicinity but which is now deserted since the natural resource has been exhausted; ghost'-word a word that  ...
G. (Ed ). Davidson, 2007

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GHOST WORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ghost word is used in the context of the following news items.
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Crime, Cairo and old school days occupy the minds of Twitter users
@_tameh0 tweeted explaining what was meant by the use of the ghost word, which is a reference to the so-called Reem Island “ghost” attack ... «The National, Mar 15»
2
11 free things worth consuming on Black Friday
It's oh-so-brilliant, and today it taught me about the ghost word 'dord'. xkcd • Just your average, run-of-the-mill genius from Richmond who now ... «RVANews, Nov 14»
3
Ostentatious breeches, gods' braggadocio, and ars poetica
Bragan, assuming that it is not a ghost word, would have yielded Modern Engl. braw (compare draw from dragen), and I suspect that Engl. «OUPblog, Oct 13»
4
Shakespearean passions around 'bullyragging'
... but, to do so, bully-brook must first lose its status of a ghost word. With the scarce evidence at our disposal, we can only say that bullyrag and ... «OUPblog, Nov 12»
5
Codger and His Evil Brother, Cadger
If somebody says that since codge, from cog, is a ghost word, my derivation lacks merit, I'll be the first to agree but will argue that cant words ... «OUPblog, Nov 10»
6
Journalists: the new entreprenuers?
I blog for City Brights on SFGate and for Ghost Word, my site about the Bay Area literary scene. What I am most excited about is Berkeleyside, ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Apr 10»
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An exclusive interview with Kevin Grievoux, co-creator of Underworld
... because comic books as graphic novels are not only about superheroes, they're about regular stories, action stories too like “Ghost Word” or ... «ShockTillYouDrop.com, Apr 09»

REFERENCE
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