Definitions for haunt
hɔnt, hɑnt; for 10 also hænthaunt

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping groundverb

   a frequently visited place

2. haunt, stalkverb

   follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to

   "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"

3. haunt, obsess, ghostverb

   haunt like a ghost; pursue

   "Fear of illness haunts her"

4. frequent, hauntverb

   be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place

   "She haunts the ballet"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hauntnoun

   A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.

2. hauntnoun

   A ghost.

3. hauntnoun

   A feeding place for animals.

4. hauntverb

   To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

5. hauntverb

   To make uneasy.

   The memory of his past failures haunted him.

6. hauntverb

   To stalk, to follow

   The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.

7. hauntverb

   To live habitually; to stay, to remain.

8. Etymology: From haunten, from hanter, of origin, probably through *, from haimatjanan, from haimaz, from kōim-. Cognate with hamettan, heimta, ham, hantin from the same source. More at home.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hauntnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Place in which one is frequently found.

   We set toils, nets, gins, snares and traps for beasts and birds in their own haunts and walks, and without any seal of faith and confidence. Roger L'Estrange.

   To me pertains not, she replies,
   To know or care where Cupid flies;
   What are his haunts, or which his way,
   Where he would dwell, or whither stray. Matthew Prior.

   A scene where, if a god should cast his sight,
   A god might gaze and wonder with delight!
   Joy touch’d the messenger of heav’n; he stay’d
   Entranc’d, and all the blissful haunt survey’d. Alexander Pope, Odyss.

   2. Habit of being in a certain place.

   The haunt you have got about the courts will one day or another bring your family to beggary. John Arbuthnot, John Bull.

2. To HAUNTverb

   Etymology: hanter, French.

   1. To frequent; to be much about any place or person.

   A man who for his hospitality is so much haunted, that no news stir but come to his ears. Philip Sidney.

   Now we being brought known unto her, the time that we spent in curing some very dangerous wounds, after once we were acquainted, and acquainted we were sooner than ourselves expected, she continually almost haunted us. Philip Sidney.

   I do haunt thee in the battle thus,
   Because some tell me that thou art a king. William Shakespeare, Hen. IV.

   She this dang’rous forest haunts,
   And in sad accents utters her complaints. Edmund Waller.

   Earth now
   Secur’d like to heav’n, a seat where gods might dwell,
   Or wander with delight, and love to haunt
   Her sacred shades. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vii.

   Celestial Venus haunts Idalia’s groves;
   Diana Cynthus, Ceres Hybla loves. Alexander Pope, Spring.

   2. It is used frequently in an ill sense of one that comes unwelcome.

   You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house;
   I told you, sir, my daughter is dispos’d of. William Shakespeare.

   Oh, could I see my country-seat!
   There leaning near a gentle brook,
   Sleep, or peruse some ancient book;
   And there in sweet oblivion drown
   Those cares that haunt the court and town. Jonathan Swift.

   3. It is eminently used of apparitions or spectres that appear in a particular place.

   Foul spirits haunt my resting place,
   And ghastly visions break my sleep by night. Edward Fairfax.

   All these the woes of Oedipus have known,
   Your fates, your furies, and your haunted town. Alexander Pope.

3. To Hauntverb

   To be much about; to appear frequently.

   I’ve charged thee not to haunt about my doors:
   In honest plainness thou hast heard me say,
   My daughter’s not for thee. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ’d
   The air is delicate William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HAUNT

   Haunt was a straightforward but engagingly irreverent text-based mainframe computer game. It was created in OPS4 language in 1979 by John E. Laird.In Haunt, the player explores a haunted house and encounters clues (flight speed of an African swallow), wacky creatures (rampaging moose), and random elements (the bus) as s/he tries to find treasure and escape the house alive. The game ran on DEC-10 & DEC-20 mainframes running TOPS-10 or TOPS-20. According to the author, copies exist somewhere in Carnegie Mellon University's archive; although Laird considered rewriting it in an updated language, that did not happen. On his personal website, Laird wrote " I'm afraid that Haunt is really dead."In 1998 the source code of the partly ported version was given to the Interactive Fiction Archive for publication.Laird is now a professor at University of Michigan. As he describes: "It violated most, if not all, of the design guidelines for good interactive fiction in that you could get killed much too easily, the puzzles were way too obscure (many based on Saturday morning cartoons from my youth), but it had a certain charm."

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. haunt

   Haunt can be defined as a verb referring to the act of persistently remaining in someone's thoughts or memories or consistently troubling or disturbing a person's mind. It can also refer to a place that is frequently visited or inhabited by ghosts or spirits.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hauntverb

   to frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon

2. Hauntverb

   to inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition

3. Hauntverb

   to practice; to devote one's self to

4. Hauntverb

   to accustom; to habituate

5. Hauntverb

   to persist in staying or visiting

6. Hauntnoun

   a place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts

7. Hauntnoun

   the habit of resorting to a place

8. Hauntnoun

   practice; skill

9. Etymology: [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). 36.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Haunt

   hawnt, v.t. to frequent: to follow importunately: to intrude upon continually: to inhabit or visit as a ghost.—v.i. to be much about: to appear or visit frequently.—n. a place much resorted to: (Shak.) habit of frequenting.—p.adj Haunt′ed, frequented, infested, esp. by ghosts or apparitions.—n. Haunt′er.—adv. Haunt′ingly. [O. Fr. hanter; acc. to Littré, a corr. of L. habitāre.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hauntverb

   A action to express a natural utterance that's patterned after a contract mission. 1.) Of a ghost that manifest itself at a place regularly. Of a person frequently at a place. Be persistently in the mind of someone.

   My love asked me to haunt her in her dreams.

   Etymology: Constantly around

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on March 22, 2024  

Matched Categories

1. • Preoccupy
   • Pursue
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Anagrams for haunt »

1. Utahn

2. thuan

3. unhat

4. ahunt

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of haunt in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of haunt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of haunt in a Sentence

1. Ritchie Torres:

   We can let children languish in povertythat's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives orwe can give them a fighting chance, i prefer the latter, but that's a value judgment.

2. Tom Kloza:

   This is a big deal, it is the biggest shock to the oil markets since [ Hurricane ] Katrina. And like Hurricane Katrina it will likely haunt us for months, at least weeks.

3. Shakespeare:

   And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

4. Amy Klobuchar:

   I strongly opposed him, based on his views on executive power, which will continue to haunt our country, as well as how he behaved, including the allegations that we are hearing more about today.

5. Lot Chakonza:

   thats why I insist that love itself is a mystery,which when allowed to haunt a man's mind,the power of reasoning itself may fail.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=haunt
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Haunt
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=haunt
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunt
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haunt
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=haunt