Dictionary Thesaurus Home Premium: Sign up | Login ADVERTISEMENT | YOUR AD HERE Dictionary - Thesaurus Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites for "haunt" 5 entries found for haunt. haunt ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hônt, hnt) v. haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts v. tr. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters. To come to mind continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music. v. intr. To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost. n. A place much frequented. also hant or ha'nt (hnt) or haint (hnt) Chiefly Southern U.S. A ghost or other supernatural being. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- [Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter. See tkei- in Indo-European Roots.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- haunter n. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. [Buy it] haunt \Haunt\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). [root]36.] 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. 2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax. 3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. haunt \Haunt\, v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. haunt \Haunt\, n. 1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. Note: Often used figuratively. The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. --Keble. The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. --Tennyson. 2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] The haunt you have got about the courts. --Arbuthnot. 3. Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. --Chaucer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. haunt n : a frequently visited place [syn: hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground] v 1: recur constantly and spontaneously to [syn: stalk] 2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "She is haunted by her fear of illness" [syn: obsess, ghost] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University SPONSORED LINKS University of Phoenix Campus. Over 100 Campus Locations Free College Money! Find information on more than 600,000 scholarships! Improve your fluency With Champs-Elysées Audiomagazines in French, German, Italian or Spanish! Bills piling up? Get out of Debt with Debtscape ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISE WITH US Perform a new search, or try your search for "haunt" at: Amazon.com - Shop for books, music and more AskJeeves.com - Get the top 10 most popular sites eLibrary - Search thousands of newspapers and magazines Google - Search the Web for relevant results Google Groups - Search Usenet messages back to 1981 Merriam-Webster - Search for definitions Overture - Search the Web Roget's Thesaurus - Search for synonyms and antonyms Get the FREE Dictionary.com Toolbar for your browser now! >From the makers of Dictionary.com Copyright © 2003, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved. About Dictionary.com | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Link to Us | Help | Contact Us