Found 3 items, similar to Haunt.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: haunt
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: haunt
haunt
n : a frequently visited place [syn:
hangout,
resort,
repair,
stamping ground]
v 1: follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
“her ex-boyfriend stalked her”;
“the ghost of her mother
haunted her” [syn:
stalk]
2: haunt like a ghost; pursue;
“Fear of illness haunts her”
[syn:
obsess,
ghost]
3: be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place;
“She
haunts the ballet” [syn:
frequent]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Haunt
Haunt
\Haunt\, n.
1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking
saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of
wild beasts.
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Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a
dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
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Note: Often used figuratively.
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The household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. --Keble.
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The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. --Tennyson.
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2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.]
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The haunt you have got about the courts.
--Arbuthnot.
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3. Practice; skill. [Obs.]
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Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. --Chaucer.
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Haunt
\Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Haunted; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Haunting.] [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). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
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You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.
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Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
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2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of
dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where
he died.
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Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.
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3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
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That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.
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Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.
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4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
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Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.
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Haunt
\Haunt\, v. i.
To persist in staying or visiting.
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I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. --Shak.
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