haunted house
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Noun
haunted house (countable and uncountable, plural haunted houses)
- An amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through.
- Lisette can't wait to create a haunted house on Halloween night.
- (uncountable, music) Synonym of witch house (“music genre”)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted, house.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in The Haunted House:
- 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.
Hypernyms
Translations
house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences
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Halloween amusement attraction
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music: witch house — see witch house
See also
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