haunted house

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haunted house

noun haunted houses

  1. countable, uncountable 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.
  2. uncountable Synonym of witch house (“music genre”). This enigmatic bunch are a reaction to Manchester's musical past, with a blend of haunted house and rave dynamics

    Similar: witch house

  3. countable, uncountable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 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.

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noun Halloween amusement attraction

中文鬧鬼的房子 /闹鬼的房子 nàoguǐ de fángzi

noun house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences

Españolcasa embrujada, casa encantada
한국어유령의 집 yuryeong-ui jip
日本語お化け屋敷 o-bake yashiki, 幽霊屋敷 yūrei yashiki
中文鬼屋 guǐwū, 鬧鬼的房子 /闹鬼的房子 nàoguǐ de fángzi, 凶宅 xiōngzhái
Portuguêscasa assombrada/mal-assombrada
Françaismaison hantée
DeutschSpukhaus, Geisterhaus
Italianocasa stregata, casa infestata
Ελληνικάστοιχειωμένο σπίτι stoicheioméno spíti
Русскийдом с привиде́ниями dom s prividénijami
Tiếng Việtnhà ma
العربيةبَيْت أَشْبَاح bayt ʔašbāḥ

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@misc{haunted_house_2026,
  title = {haunted house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/haunted%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-08}
}