Meanings
plural haunters
- One who haunts.
As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.
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It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—[…]
1832 November 24, “Gossip”, in Weston Hatfield, editor, Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette, and Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, volume XXII, number 1,058, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Weston Hatfield, […], →OCLC, page [4], column 5 - A ghost; a spirit that haunts.
Origin
- Middle Englishhawntare
- Englishhaunter
From Middle English hawntare, equivalent to haunt + -er.
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Esperanto hantanto
- hantantoa spirit that haunts
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haunter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/haunter
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