haunted house

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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:
      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:
      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.

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