haunt English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)
Verb
( en verb)
To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
* Shakespeare
- You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
* Jonathan Swift
- those cares that haunt the court and town
* Fairfax
- Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
To make uneasy, restless.
- The memory of his past failures haunted him.
To stalk, to follow
- The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XI:
- Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
- yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt , and many dangers dwell
To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
* Wyclif
- Haunt thyself to pity.
To practise; to devote oneself to.
* Ascham
- Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
To persist in staying or visiting.
* Shakespeare
- I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Noun
( en noun)
A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
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* 1868 , , "Kitty's Class Day":
- 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.
* 1984 , Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, " Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming ," Time , 8 Oct.:
- 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.
(dialect) A ghost.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 93:
- ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
A feeding place for animals.[Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.]
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haven English
Noun
( en noun)
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
* Shakespeare
- what shipping and what lading's in our haven
* Tennyson
- their haven under the hill
(by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 21
, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
, work=the Guardian
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, passage=Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.}}
Synonyms
* refuge
* sanctuary
* zoar
Derived terms
* tax haven
Verb
( en verb)
To put into, or provide with a haven.
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