haunted house
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- noun
- /ˈhɔːntɪd haʊs/
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casa embrujada
- On Halloween night, our friends visited the haunted house that is rumored to be filled with ghosts.
- visit a haunted house
- go into a haunted house
- a haunted house tour
And her sister directed and wrote this Horror Story while their architect parents were staying in this creepy haunted house.
- And her sister directed and wrote this Horror Story while their architect parents were staying in this creepy haunted house.
- But whatever you do, do not visit their haunted house.
- I know other people who feel more at home in Crips, graveyards, or even haunted houses.
- And like the first couple people that jump at you make yourself scream and then low key by the end of the haunted house, you are a little afraid.
- Whether you go to a pumpkin patch, a haunted house, you know.
- This one haunted house once again, which I love haunted houses.
- I'm trying to think, honestly, the haunted house might be up there.
Examples
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I've never lived in a haunted house, but my mother did as a teen.
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Lena half-expected the door to make a creaking noise like in a haunted house when she closed it.
Fiction book (1996) -
I decided this year to have a haunted house.
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Rent this place out as a haunted house?
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Step out of the shadows and spend the night with me here in the most haunted house in all of England.
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How long have you been investigating haunted houses?
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Visit one of five different haunted houses for $13 or visit all five for $33.
Blog text (26) -
Tonight is a trip to Bonnie Screams for my final haunted house trip of the season.
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Weren't we supposed to go to the haunted house or something?
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You know, a really good haunted house, not those cheesy bad ones.
Synonyms
A place that people think is haunted
How Haunted
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a house believed to be inhabited by ghosts' is directly and compositionally derived from 'haunted' (inhabited/frequented by ghosts) + 'house' (a dwelling). This adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g., casa encantada, maison hantée), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun haunted house comes from old stories where a house is believed to be haunted by 'ghosts' that make strange noises or move things. So a haunted house now means a house people think is visited by 'ghosts'.