English Dictionary

ghost word

名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

（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

Scholars discovered that the entry was a ghost word, created by a typographical error decades earlier.

研究者たちは、その見出し語が誤植で生じた架空の語であり、数十年前のタイプミスが原因であることを突き止めた。

意味（1）

(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.

Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.

ghost words （ plural ）