ghost, n.Definitions

The Ghost is, as it were, a shadow of its former self.

The Ghost is a revenant, a spirit trying to come home.

A Ghost is the outward and visible sign of an inward fear

A Ghost is the outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

The Ghost is unnecessary as a possibility, for the world is big enough for us.

The Ghost is most at home in the home of interesting people. The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The Ghost is presented as always moaning as a result of children trying to explain to themselves over the ages the sound of moaning (and creaking) emanating through the house (origining from the parents' room).

The Ghost is, in many respects, a kind of truth. We are all haunted by things inherited from our father and mother that 'walk' in us, and that all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs nevertheless cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off.