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hant

hant is the alternative form of haunt.

hant is the pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

Meaning of haunt

Noun

haunt (plural haunts)

  1. A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
    • The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
    Synonyms:
    repair
  2. (dialectal) A ghost.
    Synonyms:
    haint
  3. A lair or feeding place of animals in the wild.
    • The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv

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Verb

hant (third-person singular simple present hants, present participle hanting, simple past and past participle hanted)

  1. (US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To haunt.

Forms of hant

Noun
pluralhants
Verb
third-person singular presenthants
present participlehanting
past participlehanted
pasthanted

Origin of hant

See haunt.

Questions about hant

What does hant mean?
Hant means to haunt.
What is hant the alternative form of?
Hant is the alternative form of haunt.
What part of speech is hant?
Hant is a verb.
What is the past tense of hant?
The past tense of hant is hanted.

Words near hant in the dictionary

  1. Hansson
  2. Hanssons
  3. hanster
  4. Hanswurst
  5. Hanswursts
  6. hant
  7. Hant's Harbour
  8. Hantai
  9. hantaviral
  10. hantavirus
  11. hantaviruses

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