'Haunt' definitions:

Definition of 'haunt'

From: WordNet
noun
A frequently visited place [syn: haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground]
verb
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her" [syn: haunt, stalk]
verb
Haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [syn: haunt, obsess, ghost]
verb
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet" [syn: frequent, haunt]

Definition of 'Haunt'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Often used figuratively. [1913 Webster]
  • The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
  • The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The haunt you have got about the courts. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Practice; skill. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Haunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Haunt \Haunt\, v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. [1913 Webster]
  • I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Haunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 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. [1913 Webster]
  • You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. [1913 Webster]
  • Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'haunt'

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Words containing 'Haunt'