Definizione monolingua

haunt

haunt (third-person singular simple present haunts, present participle haunting, simple past and past participle haunted)

1. (transitive) To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
2. (transitive) To make uneasy.

   The memory of his past failures haunted him.

3. (transitive) To stalk, to follow

   The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.

4. (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XI:

     Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell [...].

haunt (plural haunts)

1. A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, ""Kittys Class Day"":

     Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts, and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.

   • 1984, Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, ""Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming,"" Time, 8 Oct.:

     Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.

2. (dialect) A ghost.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the ""Stranger Peoples"" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 93:

     ‘Harnts dont wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin-groun mainly.’

3. A feeding place for animals.^[2]

Definizione dizionario haunt

abitare

covo

frequentare

infestare

inseguire

ossessionare

perseguitare

tana

tormentare

Altri significati:

to inhabit, or visit frequently

(transitive) To make uneasy.

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

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

of memories

A feeding place for animals.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

haunt (a place)

(transitive) To stalk, to follow

(dialect) A ghost.

(intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.