Meaning of haunt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
2. A ghost.
   dialectal
3. A lair or feeding place of animals.

Equivalents

Examples

“The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.”

“I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.”

“It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, … is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.”

“Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts, and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.”

“Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.”

“It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.”

“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.”

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