haunt
noun/hɔːnt/
/hɔːnt/
- a place that somebody visits often or where they spend a lot of time
- The pub is a favourite haunt of artists.
- We’ve been back to some of our old haunts.
- Is this one of your usual haunts?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- favourite/favorite
- old
- popular
- …
- go back to
- return to
- revisit
- …
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place)’): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to home.Definitions on the go
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