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ghost characters

ghost characters is the plural of ghost character.

Meaning of ghost character

Noun

ghost character (plural ghost characters)

  1. A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but does not do anything and seems to have no purpose.
    • Beside this detailed information which Hall provides about Matthew Gough, Shakespeare's Gough is a ghost character. There is, indeed, no way in which an audience could pick up who he is when he appears only to be killed immediately.2003, Catherine M. S. Alexander, The Cambridge Shakespeare Library, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 231
  2. A kanji included erroneously in the JIS X 0208 character set (not traceable to the sources used to compile JIS X 0208).

Questions about ghost characters

What is ghost characters the plural of?
Ghost characters is the plural of ghost character.

Words near ghost characters in the dictionary

  1. ghost catfish
  2. ghost cats
  3. ghost catshark
  4. ghost catsharks
  5. ghost character
  6. ghost characters
  7. ghost chili
  8. ghost chili pepper
  9. ghost chili peppers
  10. ghost chilis
  11. ghost chilli

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