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PRONUNCIATION OF GHOSTWRITTEN

ghostwritten  [ˈɡəʊstˌrɪtən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GHOSTWRITTEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ghostwritten is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb ghostwritten in English.

WHAT DOES GHOSTWRITTEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten is the first novel published by the author David Mitchell. Published in 1999, it won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was widely acclaimed. The story takes place mainly around East Asia, but also moves through Russia, Britain, the USA and Ireland. It is written episodically; each chapter details a different story and central character, although they are all interlinked through seemingly coincidental events. Many of the themes from Ghostwritten continue in Mitchell's subsequent novels, number9dream and Cloud Atlas. Ghostwritten is the subject of a number of influences, particularly from East Asian culture and superstition, as well as real events remodeled for plot purposes. There are also hints and references to other works, most prominently from Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics towards the end of the book, as well as Wild Swans by Jung Chang and The Music of Chance by Paul Auster.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GHOSTWRITTEN

PRESENT

Present
I ghostwrite
you ghostwrite
he/she/it ghostwrites
we ghostwrite
you ghostwrite
they ghostwrite
Present continuous
I am ghostwriting
you are ghostwriting
he/she/it is ghostwriting
we are ghostwriting
you are ghostwriting
they are ghostwriting
Present perfect
I have ghostwritten
you have ghostwritten
he/she/it has ghostwritten
we have ghostwritten
you have ghostwritten
they have ghostwritten
Present perfect continuous
I have been ghostwriting
you have been ghostwriting
he/she/it has been ghostwriting
we have been ghostwriting
you have been ghostwriting
they have been ghostwriting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I ghostwrote
you ghostwrote
he/she/it ghostwrote
we ghostwrote
you ghostwrote
they ghostwrote
Past continuous
I was ghostwriting
you were ghostwriting
he/she/it was ghostwriting
we were ghostwriting
you were ghostwriting
they were ghostwriting
Past perfect
I had ghostwritten
you had ghostwritten
he/she/it had ghostwritten
we had ghostwritten
you had ghostwritten
they had ghostwritten
Past perfect continuous
I had been ghostwriting
you had been ghostwriting
he/she/it had been ghostwriting
we had been ghostwriting
you had been ghostwriting
they had been ghostwriting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will ghostwrite
you will ghostwrite
he/she/it will ghostwrite
we will ghostwrite
you will ghostwrite
they will ghostwrite
Future continuous
I will be ghostwriting
you will be ghostwriting
he/she/it will be ghostwriting
we will be ghostwriting
you will be ghostwriting
they will be ghostwriting
Future perfect
I will have ghostwritten
you will have ghostwritten
he/she/it will have ghostwritten
we will have ghostwritten
you will have ghostwritten
they will have ghostwritten
Future perfect continuous
I will have been ghostwriting
you will have been ghostwriting
he/she/it will have been ghostwriting
we will have been ghostwriting
you will have been ghostwriting
they will have been ghostwriting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would ghostwritten
you would ghostwritten
he/she/it would ghostwritten
we would ghostwritten
you would ghostwritten
they would ghostwritten
Conditional continuous
I would be ghostwriting
you would be ghostwriting
he/she/it would be ghostwriting
we would be ghostwriting
you would be ghostwriting
they would be ghostwriting
Conditional perfect
I would have ghostwritten
you would have ghostwritten
he/she/it would have ghostwritten
we would have ghostwritten
you would have ghostwritten
they would have ghostwritten
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been ghostwriting
you would have been ghostwriting
he/she/it would have been ghostwriting
we would have been ghostwriting
you would have been ghostwriting
they would have been ghostwriting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you ghostwrite
we let´s ghostwrite
you ghostwrite
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to ghostwrite
Past participle
ghostwritten
Present Participle
ghostwriting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GHOSTWRITTEN


Brighton
ˈbraɪtən
Britain
ˈbrɪtən
Briton
ˈbrɪtən
Britten
ˈbrɪtən
Dayton
ˈdeɪtən
handwritten
ˈhændˌrɪtən
kitten
ˈkɪtən
laten
ˈleɪtən
metropolitan
ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlɪtən
outwritten
ˌaʊtˈrɪtən
overwritten
ˌəʊvəˈrɪtən
puritan
ˈpjʊərɪtən
Samaritan
səˈmærɪtən
securitan
sɪˈkjʊərɪtən
seiten
ˈsaɪtən
skywritten
ˈskaɪˌrɪtən
titan
ˈtaɪtən
typewritten
ˈtaɪpˌrɪtən
unwritten
ʌnˈrɪtən
written
ˈrɪtən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GHOSTWRITTEN

ghost estate
ghost fishing
ghost gum
ghost image
ghost moth
ghost prisoner
ghost story
ghost town
ghost train
ghost word
ghost writer
ghostlier
ghostliest
ghostlike
ghostliness
ghostly
ghostwrite
ghostwriting
ghostwrote
ghosty

WORDS THAT END LIKE GHOSTWRITTEN

backbitten
bitten
conscience-smitten
flea-bitten
forgotten
frostbitten
hard-bitten
litten
mitten
poplar kitten
rewritten
sex kitten
sitten
smitten
snakebitten
twitten
unbitten
underwritten
unsmitten
well-written
yitten

Synonyms and antonyms of ghostwritten in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ghostwritten» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GHOSTWRITTEN

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

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代写
1,325 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
570 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
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ghostwritten
380 millions of speakers
ar

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ghostwritten
280 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
278 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
270 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
260 millions of speakers

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Ghostwritten
220 millions of speakers

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Hantu tulisan
190 millions of speakers

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Ghostwriter
180 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
130 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
85 millions of speakers

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Ghostwritten
85 millions of speakers
vi

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ghostwritten
80 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घोस्ट लिखित
75 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
70 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
65 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
50 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
40 millions of speakers

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ghostwritten
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ghostwritten
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

ghostwritten
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ghostwritten
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

ghostwritten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ghostwritten

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GHOSTWRITTEN»

The term «ghostwritten» is regularly used and occupies the 107.410 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GHOSTWRITTEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ghostwritten» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ghostwritten» 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 ghostwritten

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GHOSTWRITTEN»

Discover the use of ghostwritten in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ghostwritten and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ghostwritten
A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
David Mitchell, 2007
2
Ghostwritten
It also means that she can hide behind the stories of others and not think about her own life too much.
Isabel Wolff, 2014
3
David Mitchell: Critical Essays
9. Speculative. Fiction. as. Postcolonial. Critique. in. Ghostwritten. and. Cloud. Atlas. Nicholas Dunlop One of the aspects of David Mitchell's fiction that has been eagerly seized upon by critics and readers alike is its tendency towards an  ...
Sarah Dillon, 2011
4
Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health ...
estimated in 2006 that 90 percent of industry-sponsored studies that list a prominent academic as lead author are in fact ghostwritten.91 Ghostwriting is not a new phenomenon. One of the clinical studies of the infamous drug thalidomide that ...
Thomas O. McGarity, Wendy Elizabeth Wagner, 2008
5
Profiles in Courage
Included in this new edition, along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, are Kennedy's correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews of the book, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing ...
John F. Kennedy, 2006
6
Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
For instance, when Fen-Phen was linked to valvular heart disease and primary pulmonary hypertension in the mid-1990s, litigation revealed a number of ghostwritten articles funded by Wyeth, its manufacturer, and produced by the medical ...
Jonathan M. Metzl, Anna Kirkland, 2010
7
Metafiction and David Mitchell's "Ghostwritten".
This study explores the metafictional devices in English novelist David Mitchell's first book Ghostwritten (1999).
Benjamin D. Hagen, 2007
8
Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy ...
ghostwritten works in the post war period. Richard Stokes, a military historian and magician, has made publicly available115 his research attempts to expose the alleged fabrications in Maskelyne's 1949 memoirs. In the course of those ...
Spiro Dimolianis, 2011
9
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was ...
I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents ...
Malala Yousafzai, 2013
10
100 Must-read Prize-Winning Novels: Discover Your Next Great ...
1969) UK GHOSTWRITTEN (1999) From the very outset of his career, David Mitchell has shown a determination to stray away from the paths of traditional linear narrative. In his very first novel, Ghostwritten, characters hand on the narrative ...
Nick Rennison, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GHOSTWRITTEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ghostwritten is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cheating software company opens Australian branch - as unis …
Macquarie University, which recently disciplined several students after evidence of ghostwritten assignments was published by Fairfax Media, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
What the hell happened to the Boxcar Children's parents?
... while more modern ghostwritten books have explored The Mystery Of The Soccer Snitch and The Rock And Roll Mystery. There was also an ... «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
3
H.S. senior spotlight: Charlotte Samuels of Ridgewood
"Guts" will not be ghostwritten. This month, Samuels is attending a young women's writing workshop at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
4
ONLY MALONEY
In the book, ghostwritten by former South London Press sports editor Kevin Brennan, she says: "All my life I'd lived a lie. I couldn't go on living ... «South London Press, Jul 15»
5
The tragedy of 7/7 evoked without sentimentality by Radio 5 Live
Pod, with the First Test approaching, was brandishing his (ghostwritten) autobiography DP and a racy new role as coach to England's women's ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
The Bizarre Mystery of Jim Webb's Presidential Campaign
But while his books are much better than the average ghostwritten political autobiography—and some are actually pretty good—some of it is ... «VICE, Jul 15»
7
Andy McGeady: spy stories from the frontline and the backroom
Pitching in a Pinch, the ghostwritten memoir of pitching great Christy Mathewson, contains his opinion of where one particular cheating line ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
8
On my radar: novelist David Mitchell's cultural highlights
He published his first novel, Ghostwritten, in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Guardian first book award. In 2003 he was selected by Granta ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
“It's Time That Writing Took Something Back From the Internet”
JC: The writer JC—while conducting interviews for the ghostwritten memoirs, while avoiding conducting interviews—becomes fascinated by ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
10
Finding Opportunities in Multifamily
She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business. Bio | Email. You can ... «GlobeSt.com, Jul 15»

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