| 单词 | ghost word |
| 释义 | ghost wordnouna word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint. VIDEO FOR GHOST WORDWATCH NOW: What Scares A Dictionary? Ghost Words!Ghost words haunt dictionaries like ours because they came into existence by error like a mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint ... eerie. Origin of ghost wordFirst recorded in 1885–90 Words nearby ghost wordGhosts, ghost shrimp, ghost story, ghost town, ghost-weed, ghost word, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghoul, ghoulish, GHQ Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ghost word
British Dictionary definitions for ghost wordghost word nouna word that has entered the language through the perpetuation, in dictionaries, etc, of an error Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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