haunted house
haunted house noun: an amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through.
Noun
haunted house (countable and uncountable, plural haunted houses)
- An amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through.
- Lisette can't wait to create a haunted house on Halloween night.
- Synonym of witch house (“music genre”).
- This enigmatic bunch are a reaction to Manchester's musical past, with a blend of haunted house and rave dynamics2011 March 25, Paul Lester, “New band of the day: Christian AIDS (No 991)”, in The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- witch house
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted, house.
- It was easy to see that it was an avoided house—a house that was shunned by the village, to which my eye was guided by a church spire some half a mile off—a house that nobody would take. And the natural inference was, that it had the reputation of being a haunted house.1859, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in The Haunted House
haunted house meaning in Bengali, Arabic, Indonesian and Thai
haunted house in Bengali
- house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences
- ভূতুরে বাড়ি bhuture baṛi, পোড়া বাড়ি pōṛa baṛi, হানাবাড়ি hanabaṛi
haunted house in Arabic
- house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences
- بَيْت أَشْبَاح bayt ʔašbāḥ
haunted house in Indonesian
- house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences
- rumah hantu, rumah berhantu, rumah setan
haunted house in Thai
- Halloween amusement attraction
- บ้านผีสิง bâan-pǐi-sǐng
- house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences
- บ้านผีสิง bâan-pǐi-sǐng
More languagesFewer languages
- haunted house in Vietnamese
- nhà ma
Synonyms of haunted house
Forms of haunted house
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Questions about haunted house
- What does haunted house mean?
- Haunted house means an amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through.
- What is haunted house in Bengali?
- Haunted house in Bengali is ভূতুরে বাড়ি (bhuture baṛi), পোড়া বাড়ি (pōṛa baṛi), হানাবাড়ি (hanabaṛi). See Haunted house meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is haunted house?
- Haunted house is a noun.
- What is the plural of haunted house?
- The plural of haunted house is haunted houses.
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