ghost story
ghost story noun: a story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
Noun
ghost story (plural ghost stories)
- A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
- In all smuggling places ghost stories abound. Can it be that they were invented to keep law-abiding folk behind closed doors at night, when the deeds were being done?1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379
- There are the books full of Underground ghost stories. An invisible runner pounds along the platforms at Elephant & Castle; children scream in the basement of what used to be the surface building of Hyde Park Corner, [...]2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 261
Forms of ghost story
| plural | ghost stories |
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Questions about ghost story
- What does ghost story mean?
- Ghost story means a story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
- What part of speech is ghost story?
- Ghost story is a noun.
- What is the plural of ghost story?
- The plural of ghost story is ghost stories.
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