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# ghoul

«ghoul» in Mova's school dictionary: **an evil spirit or monster, in old tales, that haunts…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ghoul, ghouls)

### meaning for a pupil

A ghoul is an evil spirit or monster, in old tales, that haunts graveyards and feeds on dead bodies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghoul/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, ghouls appear among the tombs at night to frighten people

### examples

- The travellers heard ghouls moaning in the graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghoul/#x1)
- Ghouls were said to dig up the dead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghoul/#x2)
- The children ran from the grey, hungry ghoul. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghoul/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ghoul» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/ghoul/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.