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haunted_house

haunted house

English

Noun

haunted house ‎(plural haunted houses)

Used other than as an idiom: see haunted,‎ house.
Everyone discovered a haunted house and they are terrified that items flew off tables.
(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.

Translations

house believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences

Arabic: بَيْت أَشْبَاح m ‎(bayt ʾašbāḥ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鬼屋 ‎(guǐwū), 鬧鬼的房子, 闹鬼的房子 ‎(nàoguǐ de fángzi), 凶宅 (zh) ‎(xiōngzhái)
Dutch: spookhuis n, spookslot n
Esperanto: fantomloĝita domo
Finnish: kummitustalo (fi)
French: maison hantée (fr) f
German: Spukhaus n
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)
Norman: maîson hantée f, maîson vîsionnée f
Korean: 유령의 집 ‎(yuryeong-ui jip)
Navajo: hookʼeeghan
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
Thai: บ้านผีสิง ‎(bâan-pǐi-sǐng)
Turkish: tekinsiz (tr)

Halloween amusement attraction

Chinese:
Mandarin: 鬧鬼的房子, 闹鬼的房子 ‎(nàoguǐ de fángzi)

Scottish Gaelic: taigh nam bòcan m
Thai: บ้านผีสิง ‎(bâan-pǐi-sǐng)