ghost

/ɡoʊst/

意味: 幽霊

例文: Fluffin chased a sparkle ghost through the meadow.
　　  フラフィンは草原でキラキラ幽霊を追いかけた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: ghost story(幽霊話), ghost town(ゴーストタウン), ghost writer(ゴーストライター)

定義: 死んだ人の魂や霊のことを指します。多くの場合、見えない存在として描かれ、時には人々を怖がらせることがあります。幽霊は、映画や本などでよく登場し、超自然的な存在として扱われます。

ghostは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a mental representation of some haunting experience
Noun: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Noun: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
Noun: a suggestion of some quality
Verb: move like a ghost
Verb: haunt like a ghost; pursue
Verb: write for someone else

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The ghost appeared suddenly in the old house.(幽霊が古い家に突然現れた。)
She told a story about a friendly ghost.(彼女は友好的な幽霊の話をした。)
No one believed the ghost was real.(誰も幽霊が本物だとは信じなかった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he looked like he had seen a ghost
Noun: it aroused specters from his past
Noun: there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
Noun: he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
Verb: The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
Verb: Fear of illness haunts her
Verb: How many books have you ghostwritten so far?

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): ghost, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, haunt, obsess, shade, specter, spectre, spook, touch, trace, wraith

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): apparition, author, preoccupy, soul, suggestion, travel, writer

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abstractor, accompany, advance, alliterator, angle, ascend, authoress, automobile, back, bang, beetle, betake oneself, billow, biographer, bounce, breeze, caravan, career, carry, circle, circuit, circulate, co-author, coauthor, come, commentator, compiler, contributor, crawl, cruise, cyberpunk, derail, descend, do, drafter, drag, dramatist, draw, drive, ease, essayist, fall, ferry, float, flock, fly, flying dutchman, folk writer, follow, forge, framer, gagman, get around, ghost, ghostwriter, glide, go around, gothic romancer, hack, haunt, hint, hiss, hurtle, island hop, journalist, lance, librettist, lurch, lyricist, novelist, outflank, overture, pace, pamphleteer, pan, paragrapher, pass, pass over, play, plow, poet, polemicist, prance, precede, precess, prepossess, proceed, propagate, pursue, push, raft, repair, retreat, retrograde, return, rhymer, ride, rise, roll, round, run, rush, scenarist, scramble, scriptwriter, seek, shuttle, sift, ski, slice into, slither, snowshoe, space writer, speechwriter, speed, steamer, step, stray, swap, swash, swim, swing, taxi, touch, tragedian, trail, tram, transfer, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, trundle, turn, unidentified flying object, walk, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, withdraw, word-painter, wordmonger, wordsmith, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): poltergeist, revenant

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: ghost, ghostly, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, obsession, spook

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: fear