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haunter

haunter noun: one who haunts.

Noun

haunter (plural haunters)

  1. One who haunts.
    • As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.
    • It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—[…]1832 November 24, “Gossip”, in Weston Hatfield, editor, Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette, and Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, volume XXII, number 1,058, Cambridge...
  2. A ghost; a spirit that haunts.

Forms of haunter

pluralhaunters

Origin of haunter

From Middle English hawntare, equivalent to haunt + -er.

Words formed from haunter

Questions about haunter

What does haunter mean?
Haunter means one who haunts.
What part of speech is haunter?
Haunter is a noun.
What is the plural of haunter?
The plural of haunter is haunters.

Words near haunter in the dictionary

  1. hauntedest
  2. hauntedly
  3. hauntedness
  4. hauntee
  5. hauntees
  6. haunter
  7. haunters
  8. haunteth
  9. hauntin'
  10. haunting
  11. haunting grounds

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