writer vs ghost

ghost vs writer

writer and ghost both are nouns.

writer is not a verb while ghost is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
writer	Yes	No	No	No
ghost	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, ghost is a hyponym of writer; that is, ghost is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than writer:

writer: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
ghost: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Other hyponyms of writer include abstracter, abstractor, alliterator, authoress, biographer, coauthor, joint author, commentator, reviewer, compiler, contributor, cyberpunk, drafter, dramatist, playwright, essayist, litterateur, folk writer, framer, gagman, gagster, gagwriter, ghostwriter, Gothic romancer, hack, hack writer, literary hack, journalist, librettist, lyricist, lyrist, novelist, pamphleteer, paragrapher, poet, polemic, polemicist, polemist, poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier, scenarist, scriptwriter, space writer, speechwriter, tragedian, wordmonger, word-painter, wordsmith.

writer (noun)	ghost (noun)
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)	a mental representation of some haunting experience
a person who is able to write and has written something	a suggestion of some quality
	the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
	a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

writer (verb)	ghost (verb)
	write for someone else
	haunt like a ghost; pursue
	move like a ghost

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