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ghostlore

ghostlore noun: a genre of folklore concerning ghosts.

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
    • When one person tells another of a frightening experience, he is passing on ghostlore.1995, Charles Edwin Price, Haunted Tennessee

Examples of ghostlore in a sentence

  • Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore.2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television:
  • Ghost stories and tales of railroad heroics and tragedy may have mixed to create this unique type of ghostlore.2019, Matthew L. Swayne, Haunted Rails: Tales of Ghost Trains, Phantom Conductors, and Other Railroad Spirits, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

Forms of ghostlore

alternative formghost lore
alternative formghost-lore

Origin of ghostlore

From ghost + lore (“learning, knowledge”).

Questions about ghostlore

What does ghostlore mean?
Ghostlore means a genre of folklore concerning ghosts.
How do you use ghostlore in a sentence?
Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore.
What part of speech is ghostlore?
Ghostlore is a noun.

Words near ghostlore in the dictionary

  1. ghostlily
  2. ghostliness
  3. ghostlinesses
  4. ghostling
  5. ghostlings
  6. ghostlore
  7. ghostly
  8. ghostly father
  9. ghostly fathers
  10. ghostmonger
  11. ghostmongers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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