ghost story en · NOUN
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghost stories | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (18)
yue 鬼古 (story about ghosts) · cmn 怪談 /怪谈 (story about ghosts) · ga scéal taibhsí (story about ghosts) · fr histoire de fantômes (story about ghosts) · es cuento de fantasmas (story about ghosts) · pt história de fantasmas (story about ghosts) · cmn 鬼故事 (story about ghosts) · cy stori fwgan (story about ghosts) · fi kummitusjuttu (story about ghosts) · ca història de fantasmes (story about ghosts) · de Gespenstergeschichte (story about ghosts) · no spøkelsesfortelling (story about ghosts) · hu kísértethistória (story about ghosts) · es historia de fantasmas (story about ghosts) · it racconto dell'orrore (story about ghosts) · sv spökhistoria (story about ghosts) · cy stori ysbryd (story about ghosts) · ko 괴담 (story about ghosts)