{
    "term": "ghost",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear",
            "sensetop": "ghost of somebody",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Do you believe in ghosts *(= believe that they exist)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ghost of her father had come back to haunt her.",
                    "contextForm": "ghost of somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He looked as if he had **seen a ghost** *(= looked very frightened)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ghost hunters have so far found nothing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A priest was called in to exorcize the ghost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He looked as pale as a ghost as he climbed out of the wrecked car."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ghost of a hanged man is said to haunt the house."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + ghost": ["see", "believe in", "conjure"],
                "ghost + verb": ["appear", "haunt something", "walk"],
                "ghost + noun": ["story"],
                "preposition": ["ghost of"],
                "phrases": ["as pale as a ghost", "as white as a ghost"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the memory of something, especially something bad",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a very slight amount of something that is left behind or that you are not sure really exists",
            "sensetop": "ghost of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a ghost of a smile on his face."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You don't have a ghost of a chance *(= you have no chance)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a second image on a television screen that is not as clear as the first, caused by a fault",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to not have the strength, influence, etc. that you used to have",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "When his career ended, he became a ghost of his former self."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to die",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to stop working",
            "labels": "(humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My car finally gave up the ghost."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡəʊst/",
                "audio": "gh/ghost/ghost__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡəʊst/",
                "audio": "gh/ghost/ghost__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest."
}