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haunts

haunts is the plural of haunt.

haunts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haunt.

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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Phrases with haunts

Questions about haunts

What is haunts the plural of?
Haunts is the plural of haunt.

Words near haunts in the dictionary

  1. hauntological
  2. hauntologically
  3. hauntologist
  4. hauntologists
  5. hauntology
  6. haunts
  7. hauntsome
  8. haunty
  9. hauocke
  10. Haupert
  11. Hauperts

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