Meaning of haunted house | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through.
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2. Synonym of witch house (“music genre”).
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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted, house.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Lisette can't wait to create a haunted house on Halloween night.”

“This enigmatic bunch are a reaction to Manchester's musical past, with a blend of haunted house and rave dynamics”

“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.”

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