Definitions for haunts

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Spelling: [hawnt, hahnt; for 10 also hant]

IPA: /hɔnt, hɑnt; for 10 also hænt/

Haunts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in haunts (ahnstu).

Definitions for haunts

noun

1. Often, haunts. a place frequently visited:
2. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. and North England. a ghost.

verb (used with object)

1. to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost:
2. to recur persistently to the consciousness of; remain with:
3. to visit frequently; go to often:
4. to frequent the company of; be often with:
5. to disturb or distress; cause to have anxiety; trouble; worry:

verb (used without object)

1. to reappear continually as a spirit or ghost.
2. to visit habitually or regularly.
3. to remain persistently; loiter; stay; linger.

Origin of haunts

1200-50; Middle English haunten Old French hanter to frequent, probably Old Norse heimta to lead home, derivative of heim homewards; see home

Examples for haunts

But today it's precisely a lack of belief and conviction that haunts this president.

It tells no tale, but there is a weird power about it that haunts one, and it was for that I bought it.

This ghost guest writes in Spanish and tells us that she haunts our eighth-floor, ocean-view room.

Knowing the haunts of hens, he went toward the currant bushes.

He was going to search for them and find them in their haunts of sin and misery.

As John Judis showed in a superb 2007 profile, Vietnam haunts Hagel to this day.

The man who haunts Wall Street lives unaware of all the street's doings.

He haunts me all day long, and all the night I dream of him!

His haunts necessarily kept him from meeting with those whom he had once known.

Astonishingly, no one falls prey to the posturing or preening that haunts most Western conferences.