haunt

haunt

noun

Definition of HAUNT

1

a place for spending time or for socializing <one of their favorite after-school haunts is Joe's Pizza>

Synonyms haunt, purlieu, rendezvous, resort, stamping ground, stomping ground

Related Words camp, canteen, club, clubhouse, country club, key club, service club, union; harbor, harborage, haven, nest, refuge, retreat, sanctuary

chiefly dialect

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people <we heard the local tales of a haunt in the choir loft and of a specter in the graveyard>

Synonyms apparition, bogey (also bogie or bogy), familiar spirit, hant [dialect], haunt [chiefly dialect], materialization, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, sprite, vision, visitant, wraith

Related Words angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn also djinni or djinn), shaitan; double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch; lemures, manes; incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi); cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp