Dictionary

ghosthunter en · NOUN

Etymology

From ghost + hunter.

Meanings

1. A person who attempts to track down ghosts.
   • They watched the two ghost-hunters run own the corridor and go crashing over the trip-wire. 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 119:
   • The last two years have certainly made me a ghosthunter, perhaps not in the intensive style exhibited by ghosthunter clubs and "professional" ghosthunters... 2005, John B Kachuba, Ghosthunting Illinois:
   • His reputation as a ghosthunter grew stronger and others began contacting him for investigations and "exorcisms." 1992, Blanche Barton, The secret life of a Satanist: the authorized biography of Anton LaVey:
   • The most prolific and successful German horror writer of the Hefte is Helmut Rellergerd (1945-), who writes as Jason Dark about a ghosthunter named John... 1999, John Clute, John Grant, The encyclopedia of fantasy:
   • The Frighteners (1996) has a ghosthunter, Frank, working with a trio of ghosts who infest premises that he then clears. 2004, Tom Ruffles, Ghost images: cinema of the afterlife:

Forms

Relateds

ghosthunting

Translations (10)

es cazafantasmas (person who tries to track down ghosts) · ro vânător de fantome (person who tries to track down ghosts) · pt caça-fantasma (person who tries to track down ghosts) · de Geisterjäger (person who tries to track down ghosts) · sv spökjägare (person who tries to track down ghosts) · it acchiappafantasmi (person who tries to track down ghosts) · pt caça-fantasmas (person who tries to track down ghosts) · fr chasseuse de fantômes (person who tries to track down ghosts) · de Geisterjägerin (person who tries to track down ghosts) · fr chasseur de fantôme (person who tries to track down ghosts)