ghost | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
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(noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: touch, trace |
(noun) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person | - |
(noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghostwriter |
ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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ghostliness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: eeriness |
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ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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host | (noun) an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association | - |
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(noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: server |
(noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, legion |
(noun) any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event | - |
(noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: legion |
(noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, innkeeper |
(noun) a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) | Synonyms: emcee, master of ceremonies |
(noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there | - |
(noun) (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor | - |
hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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hostel | (noun) inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) | Synonyms: student lodging, youth hostel |
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(noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostelry, inn, lodge |
hosteller | (noun) a traveler who lodges in hostels | - |
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(noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hotel manager, hotelier, hotelkeeper, hotelman |
hostelry | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, inn, lodge |
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hostess | (noun) a woman innkeeper | - |
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(noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, stewardess |
(noun) a woman host | - |
hostile | (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
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hostilities | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: belligerency |
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hostility | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: aggression |
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(noun) a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition | Synonyms: ill will |
(noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: enmity, ill will |
(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, enmity |
hostler | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
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