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ghostwrote

ghostwrote is the simple past of ghostwrite.

Meaning of ghostwrite

Verb

ghostwrite (third-person singular simple present ghostwrites, present participle ghostwriting, simple past ghostwrote, past participle ghostwritten)

  1. (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
    • Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.
  2. (transitive) To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
    • The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.

Questions about ghostwrote

What is ghostwrote the simple past of?
Ghostwrote is the simple past of ghostwrite.

Words near ghostwrote in the dictionary

  1. ghostwriters
  2. ghostwritership
  3. ghostwrites
  4. ghostwriting
  5. ghostwritten
  6. ghostwrote
  7. ghosty
  8. ghoti
  9. ghoties
  10. ghotis
  11. Ghotki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghostwrote (page history and authors); ghostwrite (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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