ghoul
pronunciation
How to pronounce ghoul in British English:
UK [gu:l]
How to pronounce ghoul in American English:
US [ɡul]
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- Noun:
- someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
- an evil spirit or ghost
Word Origin
- ghoul (n.)
- 1786, goul, in the English translation of William Beckford's Orientalist novel "Vathek" (which was written in French), from Arabic ghul, an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses, from ghala "he seized."
Example
- 1. He 's ghoul , man . Real ghoul .
- 2. Gnaw : this ghoul abilityisnow able to be set on auto cast .
- 3. Alice cooper , america 's singing ghoul , was ending his act .
- 4. A ghoul will run from a healthy , strong human being , and is afraid of fire .
- 5. The ghoul 's latest victim appears to have been phobos-grunt , an ambitious russian mission that was intended to return to earth with a rock sample from phobos , the larger of mars 's moons .