Usually means: Supernatural being feeding on corpses.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ghoul: Merriam-Webster
  2. ghoul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ghoul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ghoul: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ghoul: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ghoul, ghoul: Wordnik
  7. ghoul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ghoul: Wiktionary
  9. ghoul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ghoul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ghoul: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ghoul, ghoul: Dictionary.com
  13. ghoul: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ghoul: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ghoul (Dungeons & Dragons), Ghoul (band), Ghoul (disambiguation), Ghoul (miniseries), Ghoul (novel), Ghoul, The Ghoul: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ghoul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ghoul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ghoul: Rhymezone
  19. Ghoul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Ghoul: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. ghoul: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ghoul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ghoul: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ghoul: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ghoul: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ghoul: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ghoul (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. ghoul, ghoul: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See ghouling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.
noun:  A graverobber.
noun:  A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.
noun:  (derogatory, colloquial) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.

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