What is another word for haunts?

Pronunciation: [hˈɔːnts] (IPA)

Haunts are places or situations which we frequently visit or encounter. These can be memories, people, or even physical locations that we find ourselves constantly returning to. Some synonyms for "haunts" include: frequents, revisits, lingers, persists, wanders, stalks, trails, and plagues. Each of these words captures an aspect of the haunting experience, from the repetitive nature of our visits, to the sense of being pursued or followed by our memories or the places we have been. Regardless of the synonyms used, the experience of being haunted is one that can be both eerie and comforting, as we grapple with the ghosts of our past.

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Usage examples for Haunts

Before night they return to their haunts on the little islands, the boy said.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I sent out a few hunters along the intended line to seek for haunts of game, but I was not surprised that their searching in the dark was practically unsuccessful, and it merely meant that I must depend upon my previous knowledge of conditions.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
We had, therefore, lost an advance of two weeks in one day, and we had probably lost our race with time to reach the life-saving haunts of the Eskimo.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Haunts

  • Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
    Zola Budd
  • Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
    William Dunbar
  • It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
    David Guterson
  • A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
    William Hazlitt
  • I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
    Harold Kushner

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