Meanings
plural ghost stories
- 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 3791 more example
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
Translations
Catalan història de fantasmes
- història de fantasmesstory about ghosts
Chinese Cantonese 鬼古
- 鬼古 (gwai² gu²)story about ghosts
Chinese Mandarin 鬼故事, 怪談 /怪谈
- 鬼故事 (guǐgùshì)story about ghosts
- 怪談 /怪谈 (guàitán)story about ghosts
Finnish kummitusjuttu
- kummitusjuttustory about ghosts
French histoire de fantômes
- histoire de fantômesstory about ghosts
German Gespenstergeschichte
- Gespenstergeschichtestory about ghosts
Hungarian kísértethistória
- kísértethistóriastory about ghosts
Irish scéal taibhsí
- scéal taibhsístory about ghosts
Italian racconto dell'orrore
- racconto dell'orrorestory about ghosts
Korean 괴담
- 괴담 (goedam)story about ghosts
Norwegian spøkelsesfortelling
- spøkelsesfortellingstory about ghosts
Portuguese história de fantasmas
- história de fantasmasstory about ghosts
Spanish historia de fantasmas, cuento de fantasmas
- historia de fantasmasstory about ghosts
- cuento de fantasmasstory about ghosts
Swedish spökhistoria
- spökhistoriastory about ghosts
Welsh stori fwgan, stori ysbryd
- stori fwganstory about ghosts
- stori ysbrydstory about ghosts
Cite this entry
ghost story. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ghost%20story
“ghost story.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ghost%20story. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ghost story,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ghost%20story.
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