hant
- noun
- Archaic
:
fantasma
- The old house was rumored to be haunted by a hant that frightened anyone who dared to enter.
Examples
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They were hollow-eyed and they moved about in the firelight of the courtyard, hant-like and wordless.
Fiction book (1997) -
The villagers whispered about the hant that roamed the darkened streets every night.
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Hant or no hant, that shot fix him.
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What you think they is - hants?
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And what's ghosts and hants got to do with me?
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Lord God, don't let me see no more of them hants.
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Is you a hant?
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In the South of the 1950s and 1960s, where I was raised, Black folks talked all the time about spirits and hants, dreams and visions, feelings, and ghost tales that were true.
Fiction book (1996) -
It was inhabited by demons, spirits, hants, and the most frightening of all southern monsters, the "boogeyman."
Fiction book (1993) -
In folklore, a hant is said to linger in places where tragic events occurred.
Synonyms
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8.6
A ghost that people say appears and frightens them at night
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9.9
A frightening ghost that appears at night
A ghost or spirit people think appears in places
A ghost in South Asian stories that people believe haunts places or people
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hant is an old dialect form of haunt, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of a ghost that keeps 'visiting' a place. So a hant is a ghost or spirit that returns again and again to a house or field.