haunted house

English

haunted house (countable and uncountable, plural haunted houses)

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.
(US) A Halloween amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through the attraction.
Lisette can't wait to create a haunted house on Halloween night.
(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

house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences

Arabic: بَيْت أَشْبَاح‎ m (bayt ʾašbāḥ)
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 n
Esperanto: fantomloĝita domo
Finnish: kummitustalo (fi)
French: maison hantée (fr) f
German: Spukhaus n, Geisterhaus (de) n
Greek: στοιχειωμένο σπίτι n (stoicheioméno spíti)
Indonesian: rumah hantu, rumah berhantu, rumah setan (id)
Italian: casa stregata f, casa infestata f
Japanese: お化け屋敷 (おばけやしき, o-bake yashiki)
Korean: 유령의 집 (yuryeong'ui jip)
Navajo: hookʼeeghan
Norman: maîson hantée f, maîson vîsionnée f
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)
Thai: บ้านผีสิง (bâan-pǐi-sǐng)
Turkish: tekinsiz (tr)
Ukrainian: будинок з привидами m (budynok z pryvydamy)
Vietnamese: nhà ma

Halloween amusement attraction