Ghost character

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A character who is mentioned as appearing on stage, but does not do anything and seems to have no purpose.

    "Beside this detailed information which Hall provides about Matthew Gough, Shakespeare's Gough is a ghost character. There is, indeed, no way in which an audience could pick up who he is when he appears only to be killed immediately."

  2. 2
    A kanji included erroneously in the JIS X 0208 character set (not traceable to the sources used to compile JIS X 0208).

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casper

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"Beside this detailed information which Hall provides about Matthew Gough, Shakespeare's Gough is a ghost character. There is, indeed, no way in which an audience could pick up who he is when he appears only to be killed immediately."

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