haunter

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noun

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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Meanings

nounhaunter (plural haunters)

plural haunters

  1. One who haunts.

    As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.

    1 more example

    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

Origin

  1. Middle Englishhawntare
  2. Englishhaunter

From Middle English hawntare, equivalent to haunt + -er.

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Translations

Esperanto hantanto
  • hantantoa spirit that haunts

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Cite this entry
APA

haunter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/haunter

MLA

“haunter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/haunter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “haunter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/haunter.

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