ghosts+(noun)

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• ghost story — noun 1. : a story about ghosts 2. : a tale based on imagination rather than fact * * * noun, pl ⋯ ries [count] : a frightening story about ghosts * * * ˈghost story [ghost story ghost stories] …   Useful english dictionary

• ghost — noun VERB + GHOST ▪ see ▪ You look as if you ve seen a ghost! ▪ believe in ▪ I don t believe in ghosts. ▪ conjure, invoke …   Collocations dictionary

• zoophobia — noun a morbid fear of animals • Hypernyms: ↑simple phobia • Hyponyms: ↑acarophobia, ↑arachnophobia, ↑ailurophobia, ↑cynophobia, ↑entomophobia, ↑lepidophobia, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• ghost story — noun Date: 1819 1. a story about ghosts 2. a tale based on imagination rather than fact …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• lemur — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin lemures, plural, ghosts Date: 1795 any of various arboreal chiefly nocturnal prosimian primates (superfamily Lemuroidea) that were formerly widespread but are now largely confined to Madagascar and that… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• black man — noun a) A (male) member of a racial group having dark skin colouring, typically of sub Saharan African descent. he suspects everything he hears and sees to be a devil, or enchanted, and imagineth a thousand chimeras and visions, which to his… …   Wiktionary

• firecracker — noun a) A firework consisting of a string of bangers linked by a fuse designed to emit a series of loud bangs when lit. Traditionally used in Chinese celebrations (e.g. Chinese New Year) to scare off ghosts and bad spirits and to bring good luck …   Wiktionary

• Hecate — noun /ˈhɛkətiː/ The goddess of the night and crossroads, usually associated with witchcraft and sorcery, as well as ghosts and childbirth. Said to reside in Hades …   Wiktionary

• ghostbuster — noun Someone who purports to rid a place of ghosts …   Wiktionary

• spookshow — noun a) A show that involves spooks (ghosts). Now that youve learned the tricks, its time to put on a spookshow. b) An organisation or situation that involves spies. ...full of characters who die screaming, but the Tom Baker era spookshows have… …   Wiktionary

• lar — noun /lɑː/ a) A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome , 1974, Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again …   Wiktionary