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haunted houses

haunted houses is the plural of haunted house.

Meaning of haunted house

Noun

haunted house (countable and uncountable, plural haunted houses)

  1. 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.
  2. (uncountable) 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
  3. 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

Questions about haunted houses

What is haunted houses the plural of?
Haunted houses is the plural of haunted house.

Words near haunted houses in the dictionary

  1. Hauntaholic
  2. Hauntaholics
  3. haunted
  4. haunted fish tank
  5. haunted house
  6. haunted houses
  7. hauntedest
  8. hauntedly
  9. hauntedness
  10. hauntee
  11. hauntees

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