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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The region of spirits or of the supernatural.

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Examples

  • After all, as you know well, man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

    Chapter 37 2010

  • After all, as you know well, man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

    Chapter XXXVII 1913

  • The youngest child's final foray into "ghostland," however, is handled remarkably well.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • The youngest child's final foray into "ghostland," however, is handled remarkably well.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • The calmer he became the more was he inclined to accept this explanation of the apparitions; such was infinitely more comforting to him than the conception that they had been in truth spirits from ghostland.

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • "The little ghost will now appear among you and relate some live stories from ghostland," announced Crazy Jane.

    The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Janet Aldridge

  • “Are there not goats in ghostland who bleat at the wizard and the peasant?”

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • The actual sight of spirits from ghostland, of which hitherto they had only heard, had been too much for the nerves of the tribe already overstrung by the overthrow of the idol and the magic and slaughter of zu

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • His belief in ghostland was implicit, but now he had seen what, professionally, he was supposed to see and converse with on familiar terms.

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • Petit Nord, there must be some lively nights in ghostland.

    Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911

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