haunted house

English

Noun

haunted house (countable and uncountable, plural haunted houses)

1. 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, music) Synonym of witch house (“music genre”)
   • 2011 March 25, Paul Lester, “New band of the day: Christian AIDS (No 991)”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     This enigmatic bunch are a reaction to Manchester's musical past, with a blend of haunted house and rave dynamics

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haunted,‎ house.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in The Haunted House‎^[2]:

     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.

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences

• Arabic: بَيْت أَشْبَاح m (bayt ʔašbāḥ)
• Bengali: ভূতুরে বাড়ি (bhuture baṛi), পোড়া বাড়ি (pōṛa baṛi), হানাবাড়ি (bn) (hanabaṛi)
• Catalan: casa encantada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬼屋 (zh) (guǐwū), 鬧鬼的房子／闹鬼的房子 (nàoguǐ de fángzi), 凶宅 (zh) (xiōngzhái)

• Dutch: spookhuis (nl) n, spookslot (nl) n
• Esperanto: fantomloĝita domo
• Finnish: kummitustalo (fi)
• French: maison hantée (fr) f
• German: Spukhaus (de) n, Geisterhaus (de) n
• Greek: στοιχειωμένο σπίτι n (stoicheioméno spíti)
• Hungarian: kísértet/szellem járta ház
• Indonesian: rumah hantu, rumah berhantu, rumah setan (id)
• Italian: casa stregata f, casa infestata f
• Japanese: お化け屋敷 (ja) (おばけやしき, o-bake yashiki), 幽霊屋敷 (ja) (ゆうれいやしき, yūrei yashiki)
• Korean: 유령의 집 (yuryeong'ui jip)
• Navajo: hookʼeeghan
• Norman: maîson hantée f, maîson vîsionnée f
• Polish: nawiedzony dom m
• Portuguese: casa assombrada/mal-assombrada f
• Russian: дом с привиде́ниями m (dom s prividénijami)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh nam bòcan m
• Spanish: casa embrujada f, casa encantada f
• Swedish: spökhus (sv) n
• Thai: บ้านผีสิง (bâan-pǐi-sǐng)
• Turkish: tekinsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: будинок з привидами m (budynok z pryvydamy)
• Vietnamese: nhà ma

Halloween amusement attraction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬧鬼的房子／闹鬼的房子 (nàoguǐ de fángzi)

• Hungarian: kísértetház, kísértetkastély
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh nam bòcan m
• Swedish: spökhus (sv) n
• Thai: บ้านผีสิง (bâan-pǐi-sǐng)

music: witch house — see witch house

See also

• dark ride
• ghost train