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Definition of Ghost word
1. Noun. A word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error.
Definition of Ghost word
1. Noun. A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless, that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference book, or has been listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation or a typographical error. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghost Word
Literary usage of Ghost word
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Hamlet by John Conolly (1863)
"He exclaims that he will " take the ghost's word for a thousand pound," just as
recklessly as he had said " It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you. ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"This mysterious ghost-word turned out to be merely the past participle ...
I must add one more example of a ghost-word which I think carries off the prize. ..."
3. The Panchatantra: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Tales in the Recension by Pūrṇabhadrasūri, Johannes Hertel (1908)
"As a Sanskrit ghost- word we may cite ... conversation,' which Apte gives in its
place,1 seems to be another ghost-word begotten by the ghost-word ..."
4. The Panchatantra: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Tales in the Recension by Pūrṇabhadrasūri, Johannes Hertel (1908)
"As a Sanskrit ghost- word we may cite ... conversation,' which Apte gives in its
place,1 seems to be another ghost-word begotten by the ghost-word ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"206), calls a ghost-word, the record of a blunder, a singular coined from a plural.
The Portuguese singular is pinhao. ..."
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