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ghost word
Noun
Japanese Meaning
（言語学）誤解、誤読、または活字の誤植などにより、辞書や権威ある資料に誤って掲載された、本来存在しない（または使用されない）虚偽の単語。 / 幻の単語、誤記載語：実際には使われず、出版時の誤りなどで単語として記録された語
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(linguistics) A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless (not used in practice), that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work or otherwise listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation, misreading, or typographical error.
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ghost word
Scholars discovered that the entry was a ghost word, created by a typographical error decades earlier.
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Scholars discovered that the entry was a ghost word, created by a typographical error decades earlier.
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