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haunt

/hɔnt/ noun B1
  1. A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout. · The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.· I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.
  2. A lair or feeding place of animals in the wild.

Plural haunts

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Our phantom voices haunt the air
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 24 · C1
Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal of that look, it would haunt her to her dying day.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 58 · C1
That thought was doomed to haunt Anne through the waking hours of that winter, Sunday afternoons inclusive, to the almost entire exclusion of moral and theological problems.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 262 · C1
When she finally left it and walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in a dreamlike afterlight--“a haunt of ancient peace.” There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet fields of clover.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 327 · C1

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