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haunt

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of haunt

1 a place for spending time or for socializing

one of their favorite after-school haunts is Joe's Pizza

Synonyms of haunt

hangout, purlieu, rendezvous, resort, stamping ground, stomping ground

Words Related to haunt

camp, canteen, club, clubhouse, country club, key club, service club, union

harbor, harborage, haven, nest, refuge, retreat, sanctuary

2 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 of haunt

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

Words Related to haunt

angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius, jinni (or jinn), shaitan

double, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), fetch

lemures, manes

incubus, lamia, succubus, vampire, zombie (also zombi)

cacodemon, demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp

haunt

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of haunt

to go to or spend time in often

much of her time is spent haunting antique shops in search of unique knobs for the curio cabinets she builds

Synonyms of haunt

affect, frequent, habituate, hang (at), resort (to), visit

Words Related to haunt

patronize

attend, take in

infest, invade, overrun, swarm

call (on or upon), drop by, drop in, pop (in), run (in), stop (in or by)

camp (out in), sojourn (at), stay (at), stop (over), tarry (in)

Near Antonyms of haunt

dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, shake

Antonyms of haunt

avoid, shun

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