noun
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A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
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I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.
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A ghost.
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A feeding place for animals.
verb
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To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
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A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
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To make uneasy, restless.
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The memory of his past failures haunted him.
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To stalk, to follow
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The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
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To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
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To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
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To practise; to devote oneself to.
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To persist in staying or visiting.
Examples of haunt in a Sentence
The mountains are a haunt of red deer.
The cave is the haunt of seals and sea birds.
The wild cat may yet be found in the Highlands, and the polecat, ermine and pine marten still exist, the golden eagle and the white-tailed eagle haunt the wilder and more remote mountainous districts, while the other large birds of prey, like the osprey and kite, are becoming scarce.
It was the favourite haunt of humming-birds and bees.
The true brigands haunt only the most remote and most inaccessible mountains.
She'd show that haunt a thing or two.
Bears, mountain lions (pumas), wild cats (lynx) and wolves haunt the more remote fastnesses of the mountains; foxes abound; deer are found in many districts and moose in the north.
Snipe, woodcock, ducks and rails, in vast flocks, haunt the banks of the Drina and Save; while the crane, pelican, wild-swan and wild-goose are fairly plentiful.
The Arabic invasion at the end of the 7th century destroyed the Byzantine towns, and the place became the haunt of pirates, protected by the Kasbah (citadel); it was built on the substructions of the Punic, Roman and Byzantine acropolis, and is used by the French for military purposes.
Cilicia Trachea became the haunt of pirates, who were subdued by Pompey.
At one time a well-known theatre, it had degenerated into a disreputable haunt where nothing but the lowest melodramas were played.
Among the Arunta of Central Australia, the ghosts of the dead haunt certain localities, and, entering the bodies of passing women, are constantly reincarnated; the Black-snake clan of the Warramunga tribe embodies the spirits which the original ancestor had deposited by a certain creek.'
Sometimes, it must be owned, his realism is rather coarse and brutal, but when he paints the forests of Franche-Comte, the "Stag-Fight," "The Wave," or the "Haunt of the Does," he is inimitable.
The Chilean slopes of the Andes appear to be a favourite haunt of the condor, where neighbouring stock-raisers suffer severe losses at times from its attacks.
An English fort was built on Bance Island in the Sierra Leone estuary towards the close of the 17th century, but was soon afterwards abandoned, though for a long period the estuary was the haunt of slavers and pirates.
The tiger and wild boar haunt the thickets beside the Tarim, wild duck and wild geese throng its waters, and more especially the waters of its marginal and deltaic lakes.
The houses which they haunt, and beneath or near which their bodies are buried, are deserted from time to time, especially by a newly-married couple or by women before child-birth.
Ranscombe Farm is one of British botany 's classic sites, and a favorite haunt of wild-plant enthusiasts for hundreds of years.
To the west, of some historical interest, is the Rand Club, haunt of mining magnates past and present.
It is often said that ghostly processions and spectral monks dressed in white habits haunt the track.
This was a late Roman burial rite to ensure the dead did not return to haunt the living.
They are not sensate beings, they neither know nor care what arcanum (i.e. mysteries) haunt their innards.
A comfy old slipper of a pub- a Dickensian haunt, with low doors in wooden panels for you to creep through.
This remote and arid steppe across which Ghengis Khan marched his vast army, was once the haunt of nomadic farmers.
Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps.
Your best bet is to visit eBay, the online auction haunt where highly coveted items eventually turn up.
Try not to lose your temper or make snappy remarks because, although he may be attracted to your physically, he'll make a mental note that you were unkind, and that may come back to haunt you.
It is Agnes that is said to haunt the premises.
Her ghost is reported to especially haunt tables six and eight, and her face occasionally appears in the various mirrors.
Alan (now deceased, yet periodically returning to the show to haunt his sister) and Monica Quartermaine have strong ties to General Hospital.
The man returned to haunt Greenlee time and time again, even taking her hostage and demanding a million dollar ransom.
Your memo will become a permanent record that may come back to haunt you.
If you fib, it can come back to haunt you.
Apparently this was a favorite haunt for Giddon... and how many others?
If you let anything happen to her, I swear to the Original Beings I'll haunt you from the grave for the rest of your life!
A favourite haunt used to be the swamp of Azufghur, lying among the sal-forests to the northward of Meerut.
The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.
The more important of the carnivores which haunt the forests, valleys and mountain slopes are the bear (Ursus arctos), wolf, lynx, wild cat and fox (Vulpes melanotus).
Having become a haunt of pirates, and exceedingly injurious to Italian commerce, it was made the object of a crusade proclaimed by Pope Eugenius III.
Bard Head (264 ft.), the most southerly point, is a haunt of eagles, at the foot of which is an archway called the Giant's Leg.
Selwood forest was long a favourite haunt of brigands, and even in the 18th century gave shelter to a gang of coiners and highwaymen.
The cliffs of Copinshay (10) are a favourite haunt of sea-birds, which are captured by the cragsmen for their feathers and eggs.
Peebles is a noted haunt of anglers, and the Royal Company of Archers shoot here periodically for the silver arrow given by the burgh.
But Johnson had had enough of the patronage of the great to last him all his life, and was not disposed to haunt any other door as he had haunted the door of Chesterfield.
The Scots had so handled their enemies that they could not or dared not pursue their advantage; on the other hand, it was long indeed before the memory of Flodden ceased to haunt the Scots and deter them from invading England in force.
As early as the 10th century Sokotra was a haunt of pirates; in the r3th century Abulfeda describes the inhabitants as "Nestorian Christians and pirates" but the island was rather a station of the Indian corsairs who harassed the Arab trade with the Far East.
Leopards still haunt the cane-brakes and thickets along the banks of the rivers; and nilgai and antelopes abound.
At the same time one also meets with frank avowals of a superstitious fear lest any irregularity in the performance of the obsequial rites should cause the Fathers to haunt their old home and trouble the peace of their undutiful descendant, or even prematurely draw him after them to the Pitri-loka or world of the Fathers, supposed to be located in the southern region.
In its vicinity the praetor's tribunal, removed from the comitium in the 2nd century B.C., held its sittings, which led to the place becoming the haunt of litigants, money-lenders and business people.
The pamphlet begins by re-stating with reference to sight the general theory that perception of an objective world rests upon an instinctive causal postulation, which even when it misleads still remains to haunt us (instead of being, like errors of reason, open to extirpation by evidence), and proceeds to deal with physiological colour, i.e.