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ghost-lore

ghost-lore is the alternative form of ghostlore.

Meaning of ghostlore

Noun

ghostlore (uncountable)

  1. A genre of folklore concerning ghosts.
    • Three other sections of the state are important in this connection: the Adirondack Mountains and parts of the Catskills, which while sparsely settled and only slightly represented in this collection, have much good ghostlore yet to be collected.1982, Louis Clark Jones, Three Eyes on the Past

Questions about ghost-lore

What is ghost-lore the alternative form of?
Ghost-lore is the alternative form of ghostlore.

Words near ghost-lore in the dictionary

  1. ghost writing
  2. ghost written
  3. ghost wrote
  4. ghost-faced bat
  5. ghost-faced bats
  6. ghost-lore
  7. ghost-ping
  8. ghost-pinged
  9. ghost-pinging
  10. ghost-pings
  11. ghost-ridden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghost-lore (page history and authors); ghostlore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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